Fabian C. Moss

Fabian C. Moss is an Assistant Professor for Digital Music Philology and Music Theory at Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg (JMU), Germany. His research bridges humanities and computational methods, focusing on interdisciplinary approaches to music structure, including musicology, mathematics, data science, and digital humanities. He leads projects such as DigiMusTh (building a digital collection of historical music theory texts) and Digital Choro (exploring Brazil’s musical heritage). He is also part of the Zentrum für Philologie und Digitalität (ZPD) and the Graduate School Humanities (GSH) at JMU.

Before joining JMU, Moss held positions as a Research Fellow in Cultural Analytics at the University of Amsterdam and as a postdoctoral and doctoral researcher at École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). He has conducted research visits at MIT and Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC). His work emphasizes computational modeling, corpus studies, and historical music analysis, with a focus on tonal evolution, harmonic progressions, and digital tools for musicology.

Moss teaches courses in computational musicology, music theory, and digital tools. He serves on advisory boards for journals like Computational Humanities Research and Analitica, and actively contributes to conferences and workshops. His research outputs include datasets, software tools (e.g., MonodiKit, midiVERTO), and interdisciplinary analyses of musical corpora.