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When in Rome: A Meta-corpus of Functional Harmony (2023)
Journal Article
Gotham, M., Micchi, G., López, N. N., & Sailor, M. (2023). When in Rome: A Meta-corpus of Functional Harmony. Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 6(1), 150-166. https://doi.org/10.5334/tismir.165

‘When in Rome’ brings together all human-made, computer-encoded, functional harmonic analyses of music. This amounts in total to over 2,000 analyses of 1,500 distinct works. The most obvious motivation is scale: gathering these datasets together lead... Read More about When in Rome: A Meta-corpus of Functional Harmony.

Old Sources in new Sauces: John Joubert and the Analysis of Ancient Materials in Modern Music (2023)
Journal Article
Gotham, M. (2023). Old Sources in new Sauces: John Joubert and the Analysis of Ancient Materials in Modern Music. Intégral: The Journal of Applied Musical Thought, 36, 153-162

Anyone who has had sustained contact with Anglican choirs probably knows music by John Joubert; anyone who hasn’t probably doesn’t. This article begins by considering the starkness of those divisions between different kinds of canons, framing this in... Read More about Old Sources in new Sauces: John Joubert and the Analysis of Ancient Materials in Modern Music.

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.

"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.

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.

First impressions: On the programming and concert presentation of new music today (2014)
Journal Article
Gotham, M. (2014). First impressions: On the programming and concert presentation of new music today. Tempo, 68, 42 – 50. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298213001320

This article explores recent, radical developments in the ways in which new music is programmed and presented. It is contextualised by a brief survey of new music programming across the history of public concert-giving, and by several new interviews... Read More about First impressions: On the programming and concert presentation of new music today.