Culture can be defined as “group typical behaviour patterns shared by members of a
community that rely on socially learned and transmitted information”(, p. 151). Once thought …

This article presents a multimodal dataset comprising various representations and
annotations of Franz Schubert's song cycle Winterreise. Schubert's seminal work constitutes …

Summary Culture evolves, 1–5 but the existence of cross-culturally general regularities of
cultural evolution is debated. 6–8 As a diverse but universal cultural phenomenon, music …

We investigate the dynamics of music creation style distributions to understand cultural
evolution involving intelligence to create complex artefacts. Previous work suggested that a …

One of the fundamental questions of cultural evolutionary research is how individual-level
processes scale up to generate population-level patterns. Previous studies in music have …

Music sampling is a common practice among hip-hop and electronic producers that has
played a critical role in the development of particular subgenres. Artists preferentially sample …

Music and language are both forms of communication universally observed across human
societies, prompting researchers to investigate why and how they evolved. Such research …

Diachronic stylistic changes in music are to a large extent affected by composers' different
choices, for example regarding the usage of tones, intervals, and harmonies. Analyzing the …

The universality and diversity of music in human societies make it an important research
model for understanding how cultural features change over time and space. In this chapter …

This paper introduces the Beethoven Piano Sonata Dataset (BPSD), a multi-version dataset
focusing on the first movements of Beethoven's 32 piano sonatas. Recognized as pivotal …