A Comparison of Rhythmic Similarity Measures
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Traditionally, rhythmic similarity measures are compared according to how well rhythms may be recognized with them, how efficiently they can be retrieved from a data base, or how well they model human perception and cognition. In contrast, here similarity measures are compared on the basis of how much insight they provide about the structural inter-relationships that exist within families of rhythms, when phylogenetic trees and graphs are computed from the distance matrices determined by these similarity measures. Phylogenetic analyses yield insight into the evolution of rhythms and may uncover interesting ancestral rhythms.
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