Publications by Martin Alois Rohrmeier

A Corpus and a Modular Infrastructure for the Empirical Study of (an)notated Music

The present corpus is the outcome of a long-term collaborative effort to produce analytically annotated music scores suitable for the computer-assisted study of European compositions since 1600. With 1283 analytically annotated, symbolically encoded music ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2025

Chord Types and Figuration: A Bayesian Learning Model of Extended Chord Profiles

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Christoph Finkensiep, Petter Harald Ericson

Making sense of a musical excerpt is an acquired skill that depends on previous musical experience. Having acquired familiarity with different types of chords, a listener can distinguish tones in a musical texture that outline these chords (i.e., chord ton ...

2025

Computational modeling of interval distributions in tonal space reveals paradigmatic stylistic changes in Western music history

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Fabian Claude Moss, Robert Lieck

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 tonal content of pieces of music and observing them over time is thus in ...

Springernature2024

Detecting chord tone alterations and suspensions

Martin Alois Rohrmeier

Chord detection is the task of assigning chord labels to segments of an input musical piece. The labels are typically drawn from a pre-defined vocabulary in which each symbol comprises at least a root pitch and a chord quality. In this paper, we introduce ...

2024

Core principles of melodic organisation emerge from transmission chains with random melodies

Martin Alois Rohrmeier

Music is a product of both biological and cultural evolution. Cultural transmission is the engine of cultural evolution and may play a role in the establishment of musical universals. Here, we examined how transmission dynamics can shape melodic features i ...

2024

Hierarchical syntax model of music predicts theta power during music listening

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen Alexander Herff

Linguistic research showed that the depth of syntactic embedding is reflected in brain theta power. Here, we test whether this also extends to non-linguistic stimuli, specifically music. We used a hierarchical model of musical syntax to continuously quanti ...

2024

Johann Sebastian Bach – The Chorales

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Johannes Hentschel

This is a README file for a data repository originating from the DCML corpus initiative and serves as welcome page for both the GitHub repo

Zenodo2023

The diachronic development of Debussy’s musical style: a corpus study with Discrete Fourier Transform

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Johannes Hentschel, Gabriele Cecchetti, Ludovica Schaerf, Sabrina Laneve

Claude Debussy’s personal style is typically characterised as a departure from earlier diatonic tonality, including a greater variety of pitch-class materials organised in fragmented yet coherent compositions. Exploiting the music-theoretical interpretabil ...

2023

Interpreting Rhythm as Parsing: Syntactic-Processing Operations Predict the Migration of Visual Flashes as Perceived During Listening to Musical Rhythms

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen Alexander Herff

Music can be interpreted by attributing syntactic relationships to sequential musical events, and, computationally, such musical interpretation represents an analogous combinatorial task to syntactic processing in language. While this perspective has been ...

Wiley2023

ms3: A parser for MuseScore files, serving as data factory for annotated music corpora

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Johannes Hentschel

The Python library ms3 makes scores (symbolic representations of music) operational for computational approaches by representing their contents as sets of tabular files. Music scores represent relations between sounding events by graphical means. The Free ...

2023

MuseReduce: A Generic Framework for Hierarchical Music Analysis

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Petter Harald Ericson

In comparison to computational linguistics, with its abundance of natural-language datasets, corpora of music analyses are rather fewer and generally smaller. This is partly due to difficulties inherent to the encoding of music analyses, whose multimodal r ...

Humanities Commons2023

An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music from the Long 19th Century

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Fabian Claude Moss, Johannes Hentschel

We present a dataset of 264 annotated piano pieces of nine composers, composed in the long 19th century (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7483349). Annotations adhere to the DCML harmony annotation standard and include Roman numerals, phrase boundaries, and ...

Ohio State Univ, Sch Music2023

The Claude Debussy Solo Piano Corpus

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Johannes Hentschel, Gabriele Cecchetti, Ludovica Schaerf, Sabrina Laneve

This dataset originates from the DCML corpus initiative and contains musicological research data. For more information, please refer to its documentation page https://dcmlab.github.io/debussy_piano Please cite this dataset as Laneve, S., Schaerf ...

Zenodo2023

The 'Measure Map': an inter-operable standard for aligning symbolic music

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Johannes Hentschel

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 incre ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2023

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

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Christoph Finkensiep, Daniel Harasim, Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen Alexander Herff

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 classes (OECs) consis ...

SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD2022

Musical Garden Paths: Evidence for Syntactic Revision Beyond the Linguistic Domain

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen Alexander Herff

While theoretical and empirical insights suggest that the capacity to represent and process complex syntax is crucial in language as well as other domains, it is still unclear whether specific parsing mechanisms are also shared across domains. Focusing on ...

Wiley2022

Ludwig van Beethoven - Piano Sonatas (A corpus of annotated scores)

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel

This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It is one out of nine similar corpora that have been grouped together to An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music ...

Zenodo2022

Edvard Grieg - Lyric Pieces (A corpus of annotated scores)

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel

This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It is one out of nine similar corpora that have been grouped together to An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music ...

Zenodo2022

Frédéric Chopin - Mazurkas (A corpus of annotated scores)

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel

This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It is one out of nine similar corpora that have been grouped together to An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music ...

Zenodo2022

Antonín Dvořák (A corpus of annotated scores)

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel

This corpus of annotated MuseScore files has been created within the DCML corpus initiative and employs the DCML harmony annotation standard. It is one out of nine similar corpora that have been grouped together to An Annotated Corpus of Tonal Piano Music ...

Zenodo2022