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The experience of musical structure as computation : what can we learn?

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Christoph Finkensiep, Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen Alexander Herff

This paper presents an overview of the epistemological grounding of the computational approach to musical syntax as a tool to advance our understanding of the cognitive underpinnings of the musical experience. From the proposed perspective, formulations of ...

2021

Exploring the foundations of tonality: statistical cognitive modeling of modes in the history of Western classical music

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Daniel Harasim, Fabian Claude Moss

Tonality is one of the most central theoretical concepts for the analysis of Western classical music. This study presents a novel approach for the study of its historical development, exploring in particular the concept of mode. Based on a large dataset of ...

2021

Western listeners detect boundary hierarchy in Indian music: a segmentation study

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Tudor Popescu

How are listeners able to follow and enjoy complex pieces of music? Several theoretical frameworks suggest links between the process of listening and the formal structure of music, involving a division of the musical surface into structural units at multip ...

NATURE RESEARCH2021

Modeling and Inferring Proto-Voice Structure in Free Polyphony

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Christoph Finkensiep

Voice leading is considered to play an important role in the structure of Western tonal music. However, the explicit voice assignment of a piece (if present at all) generally does not reflect all phenomena related to voice leading. Instead, voice-leading p ...

ISMIR2021

Positioning Left-hand Movement in Violin Performance: A System and User Study of Fingering Pattern Generation

Su Li, Yi-Hsin Jen

Organizing fingerings, i.e., choosing which fingers to press on which positions and strings, is a crucial step for playing the violin. As the violin fingering comprises several components, the mapping of a musical phrase to the corresponding fingering arra ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

The Learnability of the Grammar of Jazz: Bayesian Inference of Hierarchical Structures in Harmony

Daniel Harasim

Musical grammar describes a set of principles that are used to understand and interpret the structure of a piece according to a musical style. The main topic of this study is grammar induction for harmony --- the process of learning structural principles f ...

EPFL2020

Harmony and form in Brazilian Choro: A corpus-driven approach to musical style analysis

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss

This corpus study constitutes the first quantitative style analysis of Choro, a primarily instrumental music genre that emerged in Brazil at the end of the 19th century. We evaluate its description in a recent comprehensive textbook by transcribing the cho ...

2020

Lyrics-Conditioned Neural Melody Generation

Simon Canales, Yi Yu

Generating melody from lyrics to compose a song has been a very interesting research topic in the area of artificial intelligence and music, which tries to predict generative music relationship between lyrics and melody. In this demonstration paper, by exp ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2020

The Tonal Diffusion Model

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Robert Lieck

Pitch-class distributions are of central relevance in music information retrieval, computational musicology and various other fields, such as music perception and cognition. However, despite their structure being closely related to the cognitively and musi ...

2020

The Jazz Harmony Treebank

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Christoph Finkensiep, Daniel Harasim, Petter Harald Ericson

Grammatical models which represent the hierarchical structure of chord sequences have proven very useful in recent analyses of Jazz harmony. A critical resource for building and evaluating such models is a ground-truth database of syntax trees that encode ...

ISMIR2020

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