Best Paper Award at CHR 2023

We are delighted to share that the paper Studying Tonal Evolution of Western Choral Music: A Corpus-Based Strategy, authored by CAIDAS-member Christof Weiß and Meinard Müller (AudioLabs Erlangen) won a best paper award at the 4th conference on Computational Humanities Research (CHR) in Paris!

The paper exploits a novel audio corpus (5773 tracks) for studying the evolution of tonality. The data stems from the Carus-Verlag, which publishes scholarly-critical editions and recordings of choral music. Based on this carefully annotated corpus, we revisit a strategy to deal with missing composition dates and test three musicological hypotheses. We are very grateful for this distinction and thank Carus for providing their valuable corpus for our research!