Fabian C. Moss

Fabian C. Moss

Digital Music Philology and Music Theory

Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg

Welcome!

I am a tenure-track assistant professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory in the Institut für Musikforschung at Julius-Maximilians University Würzburg (JMU), Germany, part of the extended collegial board of the Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität (ZPD), and member of the Graduate School Humanities (GSH). I teach courses covering a wide range of topics in music theory, computational musicology, and digital tools.

In my research, I bridge concepts and methodologies from the humanities and the sciences, and aim to understand music and its structure from an inherently interdisciplinary perspective, involving fields such as musicology and music theory, mathematics, music information retrieval, data science and machine learning, music cognition, and the digital humanities. One of my central interests lies in analysing large digital corpora in order to better understand musical styles, especially from a historical viewpoint. More specifically, I work with large symbolic datasets of musical scores and harmonic annotations. I am also interested in computational modeling of music and its perception, and am fascinated by quantitative approaches to model historical processes.

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[Institut für Musikforschung](http://musikwissenschaft.uni-wuerzburg.de/) | [Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität](https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/zpd/) | [Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg](https://www.uni-wuerzburg.de/)
Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory
Dec 2022 – Present Würzburg, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Media Studies Department | [ILLC]([www.illc.com](https://www.illc.uva.nl/)) | [Data Science Centre](https://dsc.uva.nl/) | [Universeit van Amsterdam](https://uva.nl/)
Research Fellow in Cultural Analytics
Media Studies Department | ILLC | Data Science Centre | Universeit van Amsterdam
Jan 2022 – Nov 2022 Amsterdam, The Netherlands
 
 
 
 
 
Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Postdoctoral Researcher
Feb 2020 – Dec 2021 Lausanne, Switzerland
 
 
 
 
 
Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab | École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Doctoral Assistant
Sep 2017 – Feb 2020 Lausanne, Switzerland
 
 
 
 
 
Dresden Music Cognition Lab | Technische Universität Dresden
Doctoral Assistant
Jan 2015 – Aug 2017 Dresden, Germany
 
 
 
 
 
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
ERASMUS Exchange Student
Jan 2012 – Apr 2012
 
 
 
 
 
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
Master of Arts Musicology
Apr 2011 – Sep 2013
 
 
 
 
 
Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln
State Examination Music
Apr 2008 – Sep 2013
 
 
 
 
 
University of Cologne
State Examination Mathematics and Educational Studies
Oct 2006 – Sep 2016