David Sears is a post-doctoral researcher in the Department of Computational Perception at Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria. He completed his PhD in music theory in the Schulich School of Music at McGill University in 2016. His research attempts to identify, classify, and predict the most recurrent temporal patterns in music of the classical style using both experimental and corpus-analytic methods. His other research interests include eighteenth-century form, computational approaches to music theory, emotion and psychophysiology, and the analysis of popular music. Recent publications have appeared in Music Perception, the International Journal of Psychophysiology, Eighteenth-Century Music, and an edited volume on cadences in the classical repertoire.
Contact : david.sears@jku.at
Séance - Falling Nicely Into Place: The Cadence in History and Theory3.F.3 : “Family Resemblance” and the Classical Cadence Typology: Classification Using Phylogenetic Trees
