Music as a formal language
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The main focus of this paper is the characterization of generic musical structure in terms of the apparatus of formal language theory. It is argued that musical competence falls into the same class as natural language with respect to strong generative capacity – the class of mildly context-sensitive languages described by Joshi (1985).
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