In this presentation, Clemens Wöllner will discuss corpora research. He will draw on examples from his and his team's work on 19th century symphonies (and the slow movements in particular), and a corpus of German newspaper articles during Covid19. The presentation will discuss the prospects and limits of a generalizing approach, as is often the aim with large datasets, and the role of automatic feature extraction versus human analysis. The two studies in question were carried out primarily using human annotation, which requires detailed criteria.
The presentation will be followed by a panel discussion with Finn Upham, Judith Irmela Haug and Alexander Refsum Jensenius, moderated by Peter Edwards.
Clemens Wöllner is Professor of Systematic Musicology at the University of Music Freiburg, Germany. Previous positions include a professorship at the University of Hamburg (2013-2022), an interim professorship at Bremen, and a Research Fellowship at the Royal Northern College of Music Manchester (2008-2010). He has published widely on timing in perception and performance, expressiveness, attention and movement in music and beyond. His research project “Slow Motion: Transformation of Musical Time in Perception and Performance” was awarded a grant from the European Research Council. He is President of the German Society for Music Psychology, and serves in the boards of leading journals in the field. Recently, he co-edited the book "Performing Time" with Justin London, which includes several contributions from RITMO members, and was published by OUP in summer 2023.