Data mining the New York Philharmonic performance history
The New York Philharmonic has a public dataset containing metadata for their entire performance history. I recently discovered this, and of course downloaded it and started... »
Exploring musical data with R: An introduction to computational music analysis
I created a series of tutorials for my Computational Music Analysis students this summer, introducing them to basic analysis and visualization of musical data in RStudio.... »
What is computational musicology?
Computational musicology is a young, growing field ― one in which I find myself increasingly involved. In addition to The Lieder Project, I will be teaching... »
Uncanny Number Six (the music of Battlestar Galactica)
I just finished watching the first season of the 2005 remake of Battlestar Galactica. Generally the music stays out of the way, especially compared with the... »
How Imogen Heap tells a linear story in a cyclical song
A song tells a story, right? But most traditional song forms are cyclical — some major component of the music and the text repeat multiple times... »
Does classical music make you smart?
In response to a question from a music cognition student, I dug up this old post from "Sound a Mind," a blog on music cognition that... »
Student-centered curriculum
What does a student-centered music theory curriculum look like? This question has been posed to me a few times on Twitter by David Kulma. It has... »
