Thirteen different compression algorithms were used to calculate the normalized compression distances (NCDs) between pairs of tunes in the Annotated Corpus of 360 Dutch folk songs from the collection Onder de groene linde. These NCDs were then used in conjunction with the 1-nearest-neighbour algorithm and leaveone-out cross-validation to classify the 360 melodies into tune families. The classif...

ambits of tones (as one of the most important elements of mode structure) in old iranian music have multiple kinds and definitions. middle eastern musicologists have always tried to explain and devise tones ambits, because ambits of tones and structure of mode are irrefrangible. generally purpose of division of ambits to their components is explanation of melodic modules and their combination. ...

As a result of numerous archreological discoveries made especially during the last four decades, it is increasingly evident that the ancient Vietnamese civilization can no longer be regarded as a mere branch of the Chinese cultural complex. Even though Chinese contributions are not to be minimized, especially in regard to the court, the mandarins, and the city dwellers, we have ample evidence o...

Long recognized in the arts, the influence of sounds and music on emotional reactions to visual stimuli remains remarkably unconsidered in cartography. Social scientists are increasingly aware that cognitive processing and decision making cannot be fully understood without accounting for affect. Geographic representations are often designed for decision making, but strategies for representing, ...

Music is a universal but still poorly understood form of human communication in which abstract patterns of sound can cause people to cry, laugh, dance, reflect, bond and even mate. Rhythm is a basic organising principle of music, providing a strict temporal framework for an infinite variety of playful and expressive musical behaviours, from clapping and dancing in a group to a virtuosic violin ...

Most of the current musicological knowledge is present in printed books and manuscripts. In the last years greats efforts have been done in order to digitize and make available these documents in form of Digital Libraries. However, digital documents are mainly stored as raw text, with no more structure than indexes and some metadata. Therefore, implicit knowledge contained in text is not unders...

Did Ludwig van Beethoven (1770–1827) re-use material when composing his piano sonatas? What repeated patterns are distinctive of Beethoven’s piano sonatas compared, say, to those of Frédéric Chopin (1810–1849)? Traditionally, in preparation for essays on topics such as these, music analysts have undertaken inter-opus pattern discovery—informally or systematically—which is the task of identifyin...

An UnConference UnSession on Computer Music Performance was hosted on June 5, 2010 at the International Computer Music Conference in New York to initiate a dialog regarding the past practices, current state, challenges, and future opportunities for the field of computer music performance. Reflecting the inherently eclectic make-up of computer music, the unsession attracted a diverse group of pe...

Emergent Rhythmic Structures as Cultural Phenomena Driven by Social Pressure in a Society of Artificial Agents João Pedro Magalhães Martins This thesis studies rhythm from an evolutionary computation perspective. Rhythm is the most fundamental dimension of music and can be used as a ground to describe the evolution of music. More specifically, the main goal of the thesis is to investigate how c...

An empirical investigation of how local harmonic structures (e.g., chord progressions) contribute to the experience and enjoyment of uplifting trance (UT) music is presented. The connection between rhythmic and percussive elements and resulting trance-like states has been highlighted by musicologists, but no research, to our knowledge, has explored whether repeated harmonic elements influence a...