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Serial Analysis: A Digital Library of Rows in the Repertoire and their Properties, with Applications for Teaching and Research (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gotham, M., & Yust, J. (2021). Serial Analysis: A Digital Library of Rows in the Repertoire and their Properties, with Applications for Teaching and Research. In C. Arthur (Ed.), DLfM '21: Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (32-40). https://doi.org/10.1145/3469013.3469018

Recent years have seen the emergence of concerted efforts for consolidating and curating digital libraries of musical analyses. This is a welcome development that stands to complement the more established attention to collections of musical resources... Read More about Serial Analysis: A Digital Library of Rows in the Repertoire and their Properties, with Applications for Teaching and Research.

Not All Roads Lead to Rome: Pitch Representation and Model Architecture for Automatic Harmonic Analysis (2020)
Journal Article
Micchi, G., Gotham, M., & Giraud, M. (2020). Not All Roads Lead to Rome: Pitch Representation and Model Architecture for Automatic Harmonic Analysis. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 3, 42 – 54. https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.45

Automatic harmonic analysis has been an enduring focus of the MIR community, and has enjoyed a particularly vigorous revival of interest in the machine-learning age. We focus here on the specific case of Roman numeral analysis which, by virtue of req... Read More about Not All Roads Lead to Rome: Pitch Representation and Model Architecture for Automatic Harmonic Analysis.

Discourse not dualism: An interdisciplinary dialogue on sonata form in Beethoven's early piano sonatas (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Weiß, C., Klauk, S., Gotham, M., Müller, M., & Kleinertz, R. (2020). Discourse not dualism: An interdisciplinary dialogue on sonata form in Beethoven's early piano sonatas. In Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2020. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4245402

The computational analysis of music has traditionally seen a sharp divide between the "audio approach" relying on signal processing and the "symbolic approach" based on scores. Likewise, there has also been an unfortunate gap between any such computa... Read More about Discourse not dualism: An interdisciplinary dialogue on sonata form in Beethoven's early piano sonatas.

Moments musicaux: Towards comprehensive catalogues of real repertoire examples for teaching and research (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Gotham, M. (2019). Moments musicaux: Towards comprehensive catalogues of real repertoire examples for teaching and research. In DLfM '19: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (70-78). https://doi.org/10.1145/3358664.3358676

One form of musical library that is a mainstay of traditional musicology and which stands to benefit from digital attention is the ‘anthology’. These collections, often paired with a textbook, are tasked with bringing together a set of ‘representativ... Read More about Moments musicaux: Towards comprehensive catalogues of real repertoire examples for teaching and research.

"attractor Tempi" in Brahms's Symphony No. 2/III (2018)
Journal Article
Gotham, M. R. H. (2018). "attractor Tempi" in Brahms's Symphony No. 2/III. Music Theory Spectrum, 40(1), 138 – 153. https://doi.org/10.1093/mts/mty010

This analysis assesses tempo choice in the third movement of Brahms’s Second Symphony. It is shown that, at key moments of the movement, the average tempi used in a sample of commercial recordings align closely with those suggested by the “attractor”... Read More about "attractor Tempi" in Brahms's Symphony No. 2/III.

Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Liang, F., Gotham, M., Johnson, M., & Shotton, J. (2017, October). Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM. Presented at ISMIR 2017: 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Suzhou

This paper presents "BachBot": an end-to-end automatic composition system for composing and completing music in the style of Bach's chorales using a deep long short-term memory (LSTM) generative model. We propose a new sequential encoding scheme for... Read More about Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM.

Hierarchy and position usage in ‘mixed’ metrical structures (2017)
Journal Article
Gotham, M. (2017). Hierarchy and position usage in ‘mixed’ metrical structures. Journal of New Music Research, 46, 103 – 117. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2016.1253752

Musical metre is commonly formalised in hierarchical terms, and defined or represented on the basis of regular, interacting pulse streams. These hierarchies are often merely asserted a priori, though systematic studies by Palmer and Krumhansl and Pri... Read More about Hierarchy and position usage in ‘mixed’ metrical structures.