Publications by Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth

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

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

A Myriad of Exceptions? Challenging the Sonata-Form Typology for the Classical Repertoire

Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth

Present-day sonata theory scholarship increasingly draws on a typology of sonata forms that consists of five interrelated types, placing particular emphasis on the double return and thematic rotation. The present article aims at scrutinising a variety of f ...

WILEY2022

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

Franz Liszt - Années de Pèlerinage (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

Nikolai Medtner - Tales (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

Claude Debussy - Suite Bergamasque (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

Robert Schumann - Kinderszenen (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

A semi-automated workflow paradigm for the distributed creation and curation of expert annotations

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

The creation and curation of labeled datasets can be an arduous, expensive, and time-consuming task. We introduce a workflow paradigm for remote consensus-building between expert annotators, while considerably reducing the associated administrative overhea ...

2021

The Annotated Mozart Sonatas: Score, Harmony, and Cadence

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Johannes Hentschel

This article describes a new expert-labelled dataset featuring harmonic, phrase, and cadence analyses of all piano sonatas by W.A. Mozart. The dataset draws on the DCML standard for harmonic annotation and is being published adopting the FAIR principles of ...

2021

Voice-leading Schema Recognition using Rhythm and Pitch Features

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Christoph Finkensiep, Ken Jacques Alfonso Deguernel

Musical schemata constitute important structural building blocks used across historical styles and periods. They consist of two or more melodic lines that are combined to form specific successions of intervals. This paper tackles the problem of recognizing ...

ISMIR2020

The Impact of Voice Leading and Harmony on Musical Expectancy

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Robert Lieck

In Western tonal music, voice leading (VL) and harmony are two central concepts influencing whether a musical sequence is perceived as well-formed. However, experimental studies have primarily focused on the effect of harmony on the cognitive processing of ...

Nature Research2020

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

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim, Fabian Claude Moss

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 resampling methods, this s ...

2019

The pleasantness of sensory dissonance is mediated by musical style and expertise (vol 9, 1070, 2019)

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Fabian Claude Moss, Tudor Popescu

Nature Research2019

The pleasantness of sensory dissonance is mediated by musical style and expertise

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Fabian Claude Moss, Tudor Popescu

Western musical styles use a large variety of chords and vertical sonorities. Based on objective acoustical properties, chords can be situated on a dissonant-consonant continuum. While this might to some extent converge with the unpleasant-pleasant continu ...

Nature Research2019

Generalized Skipgrams for Pattern Discovery in Polyphonic Streams

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Christoph Finkensiep

The discovery of patterns using a minimal set of assumptions constitutes a central challenge in the modeling of polyphonic music and complex streams in general. Skipgrams have been found to be a powerful model for capturing semi-local dependencies in seque ...

2018

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

Martin Alois Rohrmeier, Markus Franz Josef Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim, Fabian Claude Moss

This report describes a publicly available dataset of harmonic analyses of all Beethoven string quartets together with a new annotation scheme. ...

2018