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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.

The “OpenScore String Quartet” Corpus (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gotham, M., Redbond, M., Bower, B., & Jonas, P. (2023). The “OpenScore String Quartet” Corpus. In M. E. Thomae (Ed.), DLfM '23: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (49-57). https://doi.org/10.1145/3625135.3625155

The “OpenScore String Quartet” Corpus is a new dataset of historic works for string quartets, encoded by a dedicated team of volunteers, and released freely for all use cases (CC0). In creating this corpus, we built on the experience amassed during t... Read More about The “OpenScore String Quartet” Corpus.

The 'Measure Map': An inter-operable standard for aligning symbolic music (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gotham, M., Hentschel, J., Couturier, L., Dykeaylen, N., Rohrmeier, M., & Giraud, M. (2023). The 'Measure Map': An inter-operable standard for aligning symbolic music. In DLfM '23: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (91-99). https://doi.org/10.1145/3625135.3625136

Aligning versions of the same source material has been a persistent challenge in the field of digital libraries for musicology, and a barrier to progress. The growing number of publicly accessible symbolic datasets (of scores, analyses, and more) now... Read More about The 'Measure Map': An inter-operable standard for aligning symbolic music.

Musical Micro-Timing for Live Coding (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Johnson, M., & Gotham, M. (2023). Musical Micro-Timing for Live Coding. In Proceedings of the 24th conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (98-105). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10265231

Micro-timing is an essential part of human music-making, yet it is absent from most computer music systems. Partly to address this gap, we present a novel system for generating music with style-specific micro-timing within the Sonic Pi live coding la... Read More about Musical Micro-Timing for Live Coding.

Chromatic Chords in Theory and Practice (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Gotham, M. (2023). Chromatic Chords in Theory and Practice. In Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (272-278). https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10265275

"Chromatic harmony" is seen as a fundamental part of (extended) tonal music in the Western classical tradition (c.1700–1900). It routinely features in core curricula. Yet even in this globalised and data-driven age, 1) there are significant gaps betw... Read More about Chromatic Chords in Theory and Practice.

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.

Musical Genre Recognition Based on Deep Descriptors of Harmony, Instrumentation, and Segments (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Vatolkin, I., Gotham, M., Lόpez, N. N., & Ostermann, F. (2023). Musical Genre Recognition Based on Deep Descriptors of Harmony, Instrumentation, and Segments. In C. Johnson, N. Rodríguez-Fernández, & S. M. Rebelo (Eds.), Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (413-427). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-29956-8_27

Deep learning has recently established itself as a cluster of methods of choice for almost all classification tasks in music information retrieval. However, despite very good classification performance, it sometimes brings disadvantages including lon... Read More about Musical Genre Recognition Based on Deep Descriptors of Harmony, Instrumentation, and Segments.

Augmentednet: A Roman Numeral Analysis Network with Synthetic Training Examples and Additional Tonal Tasks (2021)
Conference Proceeding
López, N. N., Gotham, M., & Fujinaga, I. (2021). Augmentednet: A Roman Numeral Analysis Network with Synthetic Training Examples and Additional Tonal Tasks. In J. H. Lee, A. Lerch, Z. Duan, J. Nam, P. Rao, P. van Kranenburg, & A. Srinivasamurthy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (404-411)

AugmentedNet is a new convolutional recurrent neural network for predicting Roman numeral labels. The network architecture is characterized by a separate convolutional block for bass and chromagram inputs. This layout is further enhanced by using syn... Read More about Augmentednet: A Roman Numeral Analysis Network with Synthetic Training Examples and Additional Tonal Tasks.

What if the 'When' Implies the 'What'?: Human harmonic analysis datasets clarify the relative role of the separate steps in automatic tonal analysis. (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Gotham, M., Kleinertz, R., Weiß, C., Müller, M., & Klauk, S. (2021). What if the 'When' Implies the 'What'?: Human harmonic analysis datasets clarify the relative role of the separate steps in automatic tonal analysis. In J. H. Lee, A. Lerch, Z. Duan, J. Nam, P. Rao, P. V. Kranenburg, & A. Srinivasamurthy (Eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (229-236)

This paper uses the emerging provision of human harmonic analyses to assess how reliably we can map from knowing only when chords and keys change to a full identification of what those chords and keys are. We do this with a simple implementation of p... Read More about What if the 'When' Implies the 'What'?: Human harmonic analysis datasets clarify the relative role of the separate steps in automatic tonal analysis..

Serial Analysis: A Digital Library of Rows in the Repertoire and their Properties, with Applications for Teaching and Research (2021)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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)
Conference Proceeding
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.

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.

Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM (2017)
Conference Proceeding
Liang, F., Gotham, M., Johnson, M., & Shotton, J. (2017). Automatic stylistic composition of Bach chorales with deep LSTM. In S. J. Cunningham, Z. Duan, X. Hu, & D. Turnbull (Eds.), Proceedings of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2017 (449-456)

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.

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.