| Degrees |
BA Music (King’s College, Cambridge); MPhil Music (King’s College, Cambridge) |
| Course |
DPhil Music |
| College |
Christ Church |
| Address |
Christ Church
St. Aldates
Oxford OX1 1DP |
Post-tonal analysis, Second Viennese School, corpus studies, digital humanities, computational musicology, music21
My research, supervised by Prof. Jonathan Cross, uses a corpus study approach to assess aspects of harmony in the post-tonal music of the Second Viennese School. Using scores as source material, I first encode the relevant works and then use music21, a Python-based toolkit for digital musicology, to investigate particular harmonic features from a statistical perspective. Primary examples include those harmonic ’types’ and sequences of types used most frequently, which give an empirical sense of the harmonic ‘language’ of these composers. Employing this digital strategy for collecting data allows me to locate long-term patterns that are not identifiable through conventional ‘manual’ analysis. In turn, this allows me to distinguish stylistically both between these composers, and within their particular bodies of work.
AHRC Open-Oxford-Cambridge Doctoral Training Partnership
