Claude Debussy’s musical style is typically characterised as a departure from earlier diatonic tonality, including a greater variety of pitch-class materials organised in fragmented yet coherent compositions. Together with a research team at the Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab (EPFL), I contributed to the analysis of diachronic trends in Debussy's stylistic evolution using computational methods. To this aim, A novel digital corpus of Debussy's entire solo piano repertoire was curated and analysed using Wavescapes, a DFT-based visualisation tool that reveals the prominence of tonal structures across multiple hierarchical levels, providing a sort of “harmonic fingerprint” of the music.

The study’s findings contribute to the understanding of the historical development of extended-tonal harmony, while representing a fertile testing ground for the interaction of computational, corpus-based methods with traditional music analytical approaches.

Achievements
✦ Best Poster Presentation at the IMA Maths in Music Conference
❋ Shown at the XIX International Conference of Music Analysis and Theory
✺ Published on Nature-HSSC