This study examines whether scrambling the order of events in a tonal chord sequence
inhibits the speed and accuracy of processing in two behavioral harmonic priming …

Since the heydays of music informatics, around the 1950s, the modeling and prediction of
musical structures manifested as symbolic representations have been continuously pursued …

This study tests the respective roles of pitch-class content and bass patterns within harmonic
expectation using a mix of behavioral and computational experiments. In our first two …

Recurrent voice-leading patterns like the Mi-Re-Do compound cadence (MRDCC) rarely
appear on the musical surface in complex polyphonic textures, so finding these patterns …

Putting forward an extensive new argument for a humanities-based approach to big-data
analysis, The Music in the Data shows how large datasets of music, or music corpora, can …

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 …

Abstract 'From Bach to the Beatles: Exploring Compositional Building Blocks and Musical
Style Change with Hermeneutic and Computational Methods' aims at finding voice-leading …

Musical schemata constitute important structural building blocks used across historical styles
and periods. They consist of two or more melodic lines that are combined to form specific …

The human ability to perceive and understand music is remarkable. From an unstructured
stream of acoustic input it creates a wide range of experiences, from psycho-acoustic effects …

Cadences, as breaths in music, are felt by the listener or studied by the theorist by
combining harmony, melody, texture and possibly other musical aspects. We formalize and …