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In this work we perform a fractal analysis of 160 pieces of music belonging to six different genres. We show that the majority of the pieces reveal characteristics that allow us to classify them as physical processes called the 1/f (pink)…

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Consonance is related to the perception of pleasantness arising from a combination of sounds and has been approached quantitatively using mathematical relations, physics, information theory, and psychoacoustics. Tonal consonance is present…

Sound · Computer Science 2017-04-25 Jorge Useche , Rafael Hurtado

This study is a theoretical approach for exploring the applicability of a 2D cellular automaton based on melodic and harmonic intervals in random arrays of musical notes. The aim of this study was to explore alternatives uses for a cellular…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-12-03 Igor Lugo , Martha G. Alatriste-Contreras

In recent years, artificial neural networks (ANNs) have become a universal tool for tackling real-world problems. ANNs have also shown great success in music-related tasks including music summarization and classification, similarity…

Sound · Computer Science 2020-01-08 Stefan Lattner

Music foundation models possess impressive music generation capabilities. When people compose music, they may infuse their understanding of music into their work, by using notes and intervals to craft melodies, chords to build progressions,…

Sound · Computer Science 2024-10-02 Megan Wei , Michael Freeman , Chris Donahue , Chen Sun

Music comprises two core structural components, melody and rhythm, that vary widely across cultures. Whether these components coevolve in a coupled way or follow independent trajectories remains unclear. We introduce a novel computational…

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We propose different methods for alternative representation and visual augmentation of sheet music that help users gain an overview of general structure, repeating patterns, and the similarity of segments. To this end, we explored mapping…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2023-08-14 Frank Heyen , Quynh Quang Ngo , Michael Sedlmair

Analytic Morrey spaces belong to the class of function spaces which, like BMOA, are defined in terms of the degree of oscillation on the boundary of functions analytic in the unit disc. We consider semigroups of composition operators on…

Complex Variables · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Petros Galanopoulos , Noel Merchán , Aristomenis G. Siskakis

Quantification of stylistic differences between musical artists is of academic interest to the music community, and is also useful for other applications such as music information retrieval and recommendation systems. Information about…

Applications · Statistics 2020-12-23 Anna K. Yanchenko , Peter D. Hoff

This paper introduces a new large-scale music dataset, MusicNet, to serve as a source of supervision and evaluation of machine learning methods for music research. MusicNet consists of hundreds of freely-licensed classical music recordings…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2017-04-07 John Thickstun , Zaid Harchaoui , Sham Kakade

Music creation involves not only composing the different parts (e.g., melody, chords) of a musical work but also arranging/selecting the instruments to play the different parts. While the former has received increasing attention, the latter…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-06-03 Yun-Ning Hung , I-Tung Chiang , Yi-An Chen , Yi-Hsuan Yang

Traditional approaches to combination tones based on Helmholtz theory encounter essential interpreting difficulties, which the most known example is the anomalous behaviour of the combination tone 2f1-f2. Without doubt the phenomenon of…

Cellular Automata and Lattice Gases · Physics 2007-05-23 Tadeusz Ziebakowski

Western music is an innately hierarchical system of interacting levels of structure, from fine-grained melody to high-level form. In order to analyze music compositions holistically and at multiple granularities, we propose a unified,…

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Many formal languages of contemporary mathematical music theory -- particularly those employing category theory -- are powerful but cumbersome: ideas that are conceptually simple frequently require expression through elaborate categorical…

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The concept of complexity as considered in terms of its algorithmic definition proposed by G.J. Chaitin and A.N. Kolmogorov is revisited for the dynamical complexity of music. When music pieces are cast in the form of time series of pitch…

Physics and Society · Physics 2009-03-23 Jean Pierre Boon

Multi-pitch perception is investigated in a listening test using 30 recordings of musical sounds with two tones played simultaneously, except for two gong sounds with inharmonic overtone spectrum, judging roughness and separateness as the…

Neurons and Cognition · Quantitative Biology 2020-01-20 Rolf Bader

The ringdown portion of a binary black hole merger consists of a sum of modes, each containing an infinite number of tones that are exponentially damped sinusoids. In principle, these can be measured as gravitational-waves with…

Chords in musical harmony can be viewed as objects having shapes (major/minor/etc.) attached to base sets (pitch class sets). The base set and the shape set are usually given the structure of a group, more particularly a cyclic group. In a…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Alexandre Popoff

We test a segmentation algorithm, based on the calculation of the Jensen-Shannon divergence between probability distributions, to two symbolic sequences of literary and musical origin. The first sequence represents the successive appearance…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2007-07-09 Damian H. Zanette

This paper focuses on the nominal durations of musical events (notes and rests) in a symbolic musical score, and on how to conveniently handle these in computer applications. We propose the usage of a temporal unit that is directly related…