Principles of Musical Structure Building: Theory, Computation, and Cognition

Project Information

PMSB

Grant agreement ID: 760081

DOI

10.3030/760081

Project closed

EC signature date 24 October 2017

Start date 1 March 2018

End date 30 April 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE
Switzerland

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Deliverables

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan

Participation in the ORDP, including filing and adhering to a Data Management Plan

Publications

Conference proceedings (15)

Modeling and Inferring Proto-Voice Structure in Free Polyphony

Author(s): Christoph Finkensiep, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2021
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5624431

Musereduce: a generic framework for hierarchical music analysis

Author(s): Petter Ericson, Yannis Rammos, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Music Encoding Conference 2022 Proceedings, Issue 2022, 2023, Page(s) 40-51
Publisher: Music Encoding Initiative

Towards a Formalization of Musical Rhythm

Author(s): Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue 21, 2020, Page(s) 621-629, ISBN 978-0-9813537-0-8
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4245508

A Formal Model of Extended Tonal Harmony

Author(s): Rohrmeier, Martin Moss, Fabian C.
Published in: Proceedings of the 22nd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2021
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5624635

Harmonic Syntax in Time: Rhythm Improves Grammatical Models of Harmony

Author(s): Daniel Harasim, Timothy O'Donnell, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue 20, 2019, Page(s) 335-42, ISBN 978-1-7327299-1-9
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3527812

Modelling Hierarchical Key Structure With Pitch Scapes

Author(s): Robert Lieck, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue 21, 2020, Page(s) 811-818, ISBN 978-0-9813537-0-8
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4245558

Distant Neighbors and Interscalar Contiguities

Author(s): Daniel Harasim, Thomas Noll, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2019
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21392-3_14

The Jazz Harmony Treebank

Author(s): Daniel Harasim, Christoph Finkensiep, Petter Ericson, Tim O’Donnell, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue 21, 2020, Page(s) 207-215, ISBN 978-0-9813537-0-8
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.4245406

Recursive Bayesian Networks: Generalising and Unifying Probabilistic Context-Free Grammars and Dynamic Bayesian Networks

Author(s): Robert Lieck; Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems, 2021, Page(s) 4370-4383
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7135932

Hierarchical syntactic structure predicts listeners’ sequence completion in music

Author(s): Steffen Herff, Daniel Harasim, Gabriele Cecchetti, Christoph Finkensiep, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the Cognitive Science Conference, Issue 43, 2021, Page(s) 903-909
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7272085

Music as Flow: A Formal Representation of Hierarchical Processes in Music

Author(s): Zeng Ren, Wulfram Gerstner, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue 24, 2023, Page(s) 627-633, ISBN 978-1-7327299-3-3
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10265364

Musical syntactic structure improves memory for melody: evidence from the processing of ambiguous melodies

Author(s): Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen Herff, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2021
Publisher: Cognitive Science Society
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7271938

Improving Chord Prediction in Jazz Music using Melody Information

Author(s): Leonhard Driever, Mels Loe Jagt, Kuan Lon Vu, Daniel Harasim, Andrew McLeod, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 19th Sound and Music Computing Conference, 2022
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7272110

Modelling the Syntax of North Indian Melodies with a Generalized Graph Grammar

Author(s): Christoph Finkensiep, Richard Widdess, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue 20, 2019, Page(s) 462–69, ISBN 978-1-7327299-1-9
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.3527844

Repetition-Structure Inference With Formal Prototypes

Author(s): C. Finkensiep, M. Haeberle, F. Eisenbrand, M. Neuwirth, M. Rohrmeier
Published in: Proceedings of the 24th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue 24, 2023, Page(s) 383-390, ISBN 978-1-7327299-3-3
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval
DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.10265304

Thesis and dissertations (2)

Hearing structure in music: An empirical inquiry into listening as representation and processing

Author(s): Cecchetti, Gabriele
Published in: 2024
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-10590

The Structure of Free Polyphony

Author(s): Finkensiep, Christoph
Published in: 2024
Publisher: n/a
DOI: 10.5075/epfl-thesis-9403

Peer reviewed articles (17)

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

Author(s): Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen Herff, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 15516709, 2022, Page(s) e13165, ISSN 1551-6709
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13165

On Creativity, Music’s AI Completeness, and Four Challenges for Artificial Musical Creativity

Author(s): Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Issue 5, 2022, Page(s) 50-66, ISSN 2514-3298
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/tismir.104

Hierarchical syntax model of music predicts theta power during music listening

Author(s): Steffen A. Herff, Leonardo Bonetti, Gabriele Cecchetti, Peter Vuust, Morten L. Kringelbach, Martin A. Rohrmeier
Published in: Neuropsychologia, Issue 199, 2024, Page(s) 108905, ISSN 0028-3932
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2024.108905

Exploring the foundations of tonality: statistical cognitive modeling of modes in the history of Western classical music

Author(s): Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Matthias Ramirez, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 8/1, 2021, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-020-00678-6

The Tonal Diffusion Model

Author(s): Robert Lieck, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval, Issue 3/1, 2020, Page(s) 153, ISSN 2514-3298
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/tismir.46

Axiomatic scale theory

Author(s): Daniel Harasim, Stefan E. Schmidt, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Journal of Mathematics and Music, 2020, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 1745-9737
Publisher: Taylor and Francis Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2019.1696899

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

Author(s): Fabian C. Moss, Robert Lieck, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-024-03168-1

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

Author(s): Christoph Finkensiep, Petter Ericson, Sebasian Klassmann, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Music & Science, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2059-2043
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/20592043241291661

The Syntax of Jazz Harmony: Diatonic Tonality, Phrase Structure, and Form

Author(s): Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Music Theory and Analysis (MTA), Issue 7/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-63, ISSN 2295-5917
Publisher: Leuven University Press
DOI: 10.11116/mta.7.1.1

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

Author(s): Gabriele Cecchetti, Steffen A. Herff, Christoph Finkensiep, Daniel Harasim, Martin A. Rohrmeier
Published in: Musicae Scientiae, Issue 27, 2025, Page(s) 672-697, ISSN 1029-8649
Publisher: European Society for the Cognitive Sciences of Music
DOI: 10.1177/10298649221122245

Discretisation and continuity: The emergence of symbols in communication.

Author(s): Robert Lieck; Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Cognition, Issue 00100277, 2021, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2021.104787

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

Author(s): Fabian C. Moss, Markus Neuwirth, Daniel Harasim, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 14/6, 2019, Page(s) e0217242, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0217242

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

Author(s): Gabriele Cecchetti, Cédric A. Tomasini, Steffen A. Herff, Martin A. Rohrmeier
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 47, 2024, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13389

Wavescapes: A Visual Hierarchical Analysis of Tonality Using the Discrete Fourier Transform

Author(s): Cedric Viaccoz, Daniel Harasim, Fabian C. Moss, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Musicae Scientiae, Issue 20454147, 2022, ISSN 2045-4147
Publisher: Sage
DOI: 10.1177/10298649211034906

The Impact of Voice Leading and Harmony on Musical Expectancy

Author(s): Leona Wall, Robert Lieck, Markus Neuwirth, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-61645-4

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

Author(s): Sabrina Laneve, Ludovica Schaerf, Gabriele Cecchetti, Johannes Hentschel, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Issue 10, 2023, ISSN 2662-9992
Publisher: Nature
DOI: 10.1057/s41599-023-01796-7

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

Author(s): Tudor Popescu, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: Evolution and Human Behavior, 2023, ISSN 1879-0607
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vg9fz

Other (1)

Hierarchical Annotation of MEI-encoded Sheet Music(late-breaking demo)

Author(s): Petter Ericson, Martin Rohrmeier
Published in: 21st International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Issue n/a, 2020, Page(s) n/a
Publisher: International Society for Music Information Retrieval