Proceedings paper Expectancy-Based Model of Melodic Complexity
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According to Berlyne (1971), preference for stimuli is related to their complexity or unpredictability. Although this claim has been supported by a large number of studies in the field of music (reviews by Finnäs, 1989; and Fung, 1995; North & Hargreaves, 1995), adequate objective ways of measuring the originality or complexity of music are in short supply. The existing objective measurements, such as the information-theoretic and tone transition probability (Simonton, 1984) models possess well-known limitations: First, research within this tradition has tended to employ limited stimuli, which have typically been specially-composed pieces or excerpts of classical music. Secondly, these models do not address the role of the listener's perceptual system in organising the structural characteristics of music.
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