Professional Summary
Dr. Marcos Sampaio is a professor of music theory and composition at Federal University of Bahia, where he investigates the development and interaction of textures and contours in musical works, employing methods of computational musicology.
Education
PhD Music Composition
Federal University of Bahia
MA Music Composition
Federal University of Bahia
BSc Music Composition
Federal University of Bahia
Interests
Music contour
Rhythmic partitioning of texture
Computational musicology
📚 My Research
I am a composer, researcher, and professor. I study the behavior of musical contour and texture in large collections of works, using quantitative methods. Through this research, I aim to expand the understanding of music, offering new perspectives that can benefit creation, interpretation, and teaching.
Featured Publications
Python Scripts for Rhythmic Partitioning Analysis
The Rhythmic Partitioning Analysis demands laborious tasks on segmentation and agglomeration/dispersion calculus. Parsemat software runs these tasks and renders indexogram and …
Recent Publications
(2025).
Composição musical a partir da modelagem sistêmica dos contornos texturais do início do Quarteto de Cordas nº 17 de Heitor Villa-Lobos.
Orfeu.
(2024).
Schoenberg, Suite Op. 25, Präludium - um estudo de propriedades intervalares, encadeamentos por semitom e distribuição estatística.
Revista Musica Theorica.
(2024).
A teoria dos contornos musicais.
Teorias estrangeiras no Brasil: migração, enculturação e aculturação.
(2023).
A comprovisação a partir de contornos fotográficos na polimicrotonalidade da peça Topografia nas Vizinhanças das Dunas de Stella Maris, para orquestra de violões.
Anais do XXXIII Congresso da ANPPOM.
(2022).
Python Scripts for Rhythmic Partitioning Analysis.
MusMat - Brazilian Journal of Music and Mathematics.
Compositions
