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The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC) (A corpus of annotated scores) Open

Markus Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier · 2025

Computer science

Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A dataset of harmonic analyses with standardized labels

Predicting Music Hierarchies with a Graph-Based Neural Decoder Open

Francesco Foscarin, Daniel Harasim, Gerhard Widmer · 2023

Computer science

This paper describes a data-driven framework to parse musical sequences into dependency trees, which are hierarchical structures used in music cognition research and music analysis. The parsing involves two steps. First, the input sequence…

Fishing for complements with chord, scale, and rhythm nets Open

Roger Asensi Arranz, Daniel Harasim, Thomas Noll · 2023

Mathematics Computer science Art

The aim of this paper is to argue that complementation is an operation similarly fundamental to music theory as transposition and inversion. We focus on studying the chromatic complement mapping that translates diatonic seventh chords into…

Hearing functional harmony in jazz: A perceptual study of music-theoretical accounts of extended tonality Open

Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen A. Herff, Christoph Finkensiep, Daniel Harasim, Martin Rohrmeier · 2022

Psychology Computer science Art

Functional harmony is an integral part of many repertoires in the Western musical practices, including both diatonic and extended tonality. In the latter context, music-theoretical accounts suggest that the three octatonic equivalence clas…

Phantom Curves Open

Fabian C. Moss, Giovanni Affatato, Daniel Harasim · 2022

Computer science Art

We introduce phantom curves, a novel music-theoretical concept based on the discrete Fourier transform (DFT), and document the creative process that led to their discovery. In particular, we emphasize the importance of interactive web appl…

Improving Chord Prediction in Jazz Music using Melody Information Open

Leonhard Driever, Mels Loe Jagt, Kuan Lon Vu, Daniel Harasim, Andrew McLeod , et al. · 2022

Computer science Art

Chord sequence prediction is a well-studied task in music information retrieval that involves predicting the next chord given the sequence of previous chords. It is of practical interest as a part of models for tasks such as chord transcri…

Improving Chord Prediction in Jazz Music using Melody Information Open

Leonhard Driever, Mels Loe Jagt, Kuan Lon Vu, Daniel Harasim, Andrew McLeod , et al. · 2022

Computer science Art

Chord sequence prediction is a well-studied task in music information retrieval that involves predicting the next chord given the sequence of previous chords. It is of practical interest as a part of models for tasks such as chord transcri…

midiVERTO: A Web Application to Visualize Tonality in Real Time Open

Daniel Harasim, Giovanni Affatato, Fabian C. Moss · 2022

Computer science Mathematics Art

This paper presents a web application for visualizing the tonality of a piece of music -- the organization of its chords and scales -- at a high level of abstraction and with coordinated playback. The application applies the discrete Fouri…

Wavescapes: A visual hierarchical analysis of tonality using the discrete Fourier transform Open

Cédric Viaccoz, Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier · 2022

Computer science Mathematics Art

Many structural aspects of music, such as tonality, can be expressed using hierarchical representations. In music analysis, so-called keyscapes can be used to map a key estimate (e.g., C major, F minor) to each subsection of a piece of mus…

Hierarchical syntactic structure predicts listeners' sequence completion in music Open

Steffen A. Herff, Daniel Harasim, Gabriele Cecchetti, Christoph Finkensiep, Martin Rohrmeier · 2021

Computer science Psychology Philosophy

Studies in psycho-linguistics have provided compelling evidence that theoretical syntactic structures have cognitive correlates that inform and influence language perception. Generative grammar models also present a principled way to repre…

Music Cognition: The Complexity of Musical Structure Open

Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Louis Bigo, Mathieu Giraud, Florence Levé , et al. · 2021

Psychology Computer science Art

Music is highly complex and provides a rich variety of insights into the human mind, its mental structures, and processes. Experienced musicians are able to create complex structures in real time effortlessly, yet there is at present no su…

The Learnability of Goal-directedness in Jazz Music Open

Daniel Harasim, Timothy J O'Donnell, Martin Rohrmeier · 2021

Computer science Psychology Philosophy

Musicians and listeners perceive dependency structures between musical events such as chords and keys. Music theory postulates the goal-directedness of such dependencies, which manifests in formal grammar models as right-headed (head-final…

The jazz Harmony Treebank Open

Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Petter Ericson, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Martin Rohrmeier · 2020

Computer science Art

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 t…

Axiomatic scale theory Open

Daniel Harasim, Stefan E. Schmidt, Martin Rohrmeier · 2020

Mathematics Medicine Physics

Scales are a fundamental concept of musical practice around the world. They commonly exhibit symmetry properties that are formally studied using cyclic groups in the field of mathematical scale theory. This paper proposes an axiomatic fram…

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

Daniel Harasim · 2020

Computer science Mathematics Philosophy

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 struct…

Harmonic Syntax in Time: Rhythm Improves Grammatical Models of Harmony Open

Daniel Harasim, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Martin Rohrmeier · 2019

Computer science Philosophy Physics

Music is hierarchically structured, both in how it is perceived by listeners and how it is composed. Such structure can be captured elegantly using probabilistic grammatical models similar to those used to study natural language. They addr…

Statistical characteristics of tonal harmony: A corpus study of Beethoven’s string quartets Open

Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim, Martin Rohrmeier · 2019

Computer science Mathematics Art

Tonal harmony is one of the central organization systems of Western music. This article characterizes the statistical foundations of tonal harmony based on the computational analysis of expert annotations in a large corpus. Using resamplin…

A Generalized Parsing Framework for Generative Models of Harmonic Syntax Open

Daniel Harasim, Martin Rohrmeier, Timothy J. O’Donnell · 2018

Computer science

Modeling the structure of musical pieces constitutes a central research problem for music information retrieval, music generation, and musicology. At the present, models of harmonic syntax face challenges on the tasks of detecting local an…

The Annotated Beethoven Corpus (ABC): A Dataset of Harmonic Analyses of All Beethoven String Quartets Open