Publications

2026 Orsini Windholz, M., Sears, D., & Moss, F. C. (2026). Harmonic patterns in Brazilian choro, Western classical, and Anglophone popular music: a data-driven comparison. Brazilian Journal of Music and Mathematics, 10(1), 54-71 https://doi.org/10.46926/musmat.2026v10.54-71

Orsini Windholz, M. & Moss, F. C. (2026). Mapping the space of harmonic cadences between brazilian choro, jazz and anglophone popular music. In Neumann, J. (Ed.), Proceedings of the 13th international conference on digital libraries for musicology, pp. 1-9. ACM, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1145/3815723.3815724

2023 Moss, F. C., Fernandes de Souza, W., & Rohrmeier, M. A. (2023). Choro Songbook Corpus. Zenodo https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.10256567

2020 Moss, F. C., Souza, W. F., & Rohrmeier, M. (2020). Harmony and form in Brazilian Choro: A corpus-driven approach to musical style analysis. Journal of New Music Research, 49(5), 416–437 https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2020.1797109

Events

2025 Orsini Windholz, M., Sears, D. R. W., & Moss, F. C. Conventional and characteristic harmonic sequences across Brazilian choro, Western classical and rock: tonal harmony in a Global South context. Third International Conference on Computational and Cognitive Musicology Aalborg University, Aalborg, Denmark, 8–10 October 2025.

2024 Research trip to Rio de Janeiro, Casa do Choro and Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Moss, F. C. Corpus Research and Choro: Potential and Challenges for Digital Methods. 3 April 2024. School of Music, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2022 Moss, F. C. Music Stylometry – the Case of Choro. Music Cognition Lab Meeting, Princeton University [online], 2 November, 2022