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Dr. Mauro Orsini Windholz serves as a postdoctoral Research Associate at the Institute for Music Research within the Faculty of Philosophy at Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg (JMU).
Dr. Windholz received his PhD from Princeton University (U.S.), where he investigated how listeners associate genre and emotion labels with different harmonic styles through behavioral experiments. He completed his Master's degree at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, focusing on embodied cognition principles to examine conceptual metaphors for understanding harmony (such as tension and color) and their influence on listeners' responses to pitch structures.
His primary research centers on understanding how humans derive meaning from pitch structures, employing methodologies from music theory, music analysis, behavioral psychology, and computational analysis of historical music documents. Dr. Windholz's work is highly interdisciplinary, drawing from cognitive sciences, philosophy, music theory, sociology of music, and ethnomusicology. His current project examines the harmonic vocabulary of Brazilian choro and its relationship to Western classical styles and other Brazilian musical traditions, leveraging the extensive digitized documentation of this popular Brazilian genre for computational analysis.
Dr. Windholz has taught university courses on music theory, popular music analysis, and music genre theory. Beyond academic settings, he has extensive professional experience as a performer, arranger, and composer across diverse musical styles, and has taught guitar, piano, ensemble practice, and music theory in non-university contexts for many years.
