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Entropy of Fourier coefficients of periodic musical objects 周期性音乐对象的傅里叶系数熵
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-07-01 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1777592
E. Amiot
There are many ways to define and measure organization, or complexity, in music, most using the notion of informational entropy, as the opposite of organization. Some researchers prompted me to study whether it could be done from the magnitudes of Fourier coefficients of musical objects (pc-sets or rhythms) instead of addressing their atomic elements (pitches, rhythmic onsets). Indeed I found that it could be a promising new approach to measuring organization of musical material. This note only purports to expose this novel idea, leaving for future research the task of comparing it with the numerous other definitions. I also sketch the study of one relevant basis for such comparisons which has been little explored, the asymptotics of entropy of arithmetic sequences modulo n.
有许多方法可以定义和衡量音乐中的组织或复杂性,大多数使用信息熵的概念,作为组织的反义词。一些研究人员促使我研究是否可以从音乐对象(电脑或节奏)的傅里叶系数的大小来完成,而不是处理它们的原子元素(音高,节奏开始)。事实上,我发现这可能是一种很有前途的测量音乐材料组织的新方法。本文仅旨在揭示这一新颖的概念,将其与众多其他定义进行比较的任务留给未来的研究。我还概述了这种比较的一个相关基础的研究,这一基础很少被探索,即以n为模的等差数列的熵的渐近性。
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引用次数: 5
Beneath (or beyond) the surface: Discovering voice-leading patterns with skip-grams 在表面之下(或表面之外):通过跳音发现语音引导模式
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-06-27 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1785568
David R. W. Sears, G. Widmer
Recurrent voice-leading patterns like the Mi-Re-Do compound cadence (MRDCC) rarely appear on the musical surface in complex polyphonic textures, so finding these patterns using computational methods remains a tremendous challenge. The present study extends the canonical n-gram approach by using skip-grams, which include sub-sequences in an n-gram list if their constituent members occur within a certain number of skips. We compiled four data sets of Western tonal music consisting of symbolic encodings of the notated score and a recorded performance, created a model pipeline for defining, counting, filtering, and ranking skip-grams, and ranked the position of the MRDCC in every possible model configuration. We found that the MRDCC receives a higher rank in the list when the pipeline employs 5 skips, filters the list by excluding n-gram types that do not reflect a genuine harmonic change between adjacent members, and ranks the remaining types using a statistical association measure.
像Mi-Re-Do复合节奏(MRDCC)这样反复出现的声导模式很少出现在复杂的复调织体的音乐表面上,因此使用计算方法找到这些模式仍然是一个巨大的挑战。本研究通过使用跳跃图(skip-gram)扩展了规范的n-gram方法,如果n-gram列表中的子序列的组成成员出现在一定数量的跳跃内,则该跳跃图包含子序列。我们编译了四个西方调性音乐的数据集,包括标记乐谱的符号编码和录制的表演,创建了一个模型管道来定义、计数、过滤和排序跳过克,并在每个可能的模型配置中对MRDCC的位置进行了排名。我们发现,当管道使用5个跳过时,MRDCC在列表中获得更高的排名,通过排除n-gram类型来过滤列表,这些类型不反映相邻成员之间真正的谐波变化,并使用统计关联度量对剩余类型进行排名。
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引用次数: 8
From actantial model to conceptual graph: Thematized action in John Cage's 0′00′(4′33′′No. 2) 从现实模型到概念图:约翰·凯奇的《0’00’(4’33’)》中的主题化行动。2)
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-05-29 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1760953
Michael D. Fowler
In this article, I build an actantial model, , of John Cage's 1962 indeterminate work (4 33 No. 2). To further investigate Greimas' actantial axes of desire, knowledge and power, I generate an ontology, , that records the facts of the model through hierarchies of relations and concepts. This allows for a conceptual graph (CG), , that describes the score's instructions and its actants. Extracting subgraphs of then allows for reasoned arguments about the implications of Cage's instructions in the score, and in particular, the composer's reference to “an obligation to others.” Through a conceptual graph rule , I offer a framework for generating the structure of a score-informed interpretation of (4 33 No. 2) that is based on a number of key conditionals that map the actants of the piece and their relation to the unfolding of the work's narrative.
在本文中,我为约翰·凯奇(John Cage) 1962年的不确定作品(433 No. 2)建立了一个实际模型。为了进一步研究格莱马斯的欲望、知识和权力的实际轴,我生成了一个本体论,通过关系和概念的层次来记录模型的事实。这允许一个概念图(CG),描述分数的指令和它的行为。提取这些子图可以让我们对凯奇在乐谱中指示的含义进行合理的论证,特别是作曲家提到的“对他人的义务”。通过概念图规则,我提供了一个框架,用于生成(4 33 No. 2)的乐谱信息解释结构,该框架基于一些关键条件,这些条件映射了作品的行动者及其与作品叙事展开的关系。
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引用次数: 1
Musical pitch quantization as an eigenvalue problem 作为特征值问题的音高量化
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-05-24 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1763488
Peter beim Graben, Maria Mannone
How can discrete pitches and chords emerge from the continuum of sound? Using a quantum cognition model of tonal music, we prove that the associated Schrödinger equation in Fourier space is invariant under continuous pitch transpositions. However, this symmetry is broken in the case of transpositions of chords, entailing a discrete cyclic group as transposition symmetry. Our research relates quantum mechanics with music and is consistent with music theory and seminal insights by Hermann von Helmholtz.
离散的音高和和弦是如何从连续的声音中出现的?利用调性音乐的量子认知模型,证明了连续音高变换下傅里叶空间中相关的Schrödinger方程是不变的。然而,这种对称在和弦调换的情况下被打破,需要一个离散的循环群作为调换对称。我们的研究将量子力学与音乐联系起来,这与赫尔曼·冯·亥姆霍兹的音乐理论和开创性见解是一致的。
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引用次数: 7
Homological persistence in time series: an application to music classification 时间序列的同调持久性:在音乐分类中的应用
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1786745
Mattia G. Bergomi, A. Baratè
Meaningful low-dimensional representations of dynamical processes are essential to better understand the mechanisms underlying complex systems, from music composition to learning in both biological and artificial intelligence. We suggest to describe time-varying systems by considering the evolution of their geometrical and topological properties in time, by using a method based on persistent homology. In the static case, persistent homology allows one to provide a representation of a manifold paired with a continuous function as a collection of multisets of points and lines called persistence diagrams. The idea is to fingerprint the change of a variable-geometry space as a time series of persistence diagrams, and afterwards compare such time series by using dynamic time warping. As an application, we express some music features and their time dependency by updating the values of a function defined on a polyhedral surface, called the Tonnetz. Thereafter, we use this time-based representation to automatically classify three collections of compositions according to their style, and discuss the optimal time-granularity for the analysis of different musical genres.
动态过程的有意义的低维表示对于更好地理解复杂系统的机制至关重要,从音乐创作到生物和人工智能的学习。我们建议使用一种基于持久同调的方法,通过考虑时变系统的几何和拓扑性质随时间的演变来描述时变系统。在静态情况下,持久同调允许提供与连续函数配对的流形的表示,作为称为持久化图的多组点和线的集合。其思想是将可变几何空间的变化作为持久性图的时间序列进行指纹识别,然后通过使用动态时间扭曲来比较这些时间序列。作为一个应用程序,我们通过更新定义在多面体表面(称为Tonnetz)上的函数的值来表达一些音乐特征及其时间依赖性。然后,我们使用这种基于时间的表示来根据风格自动分类三组作品,并讨论了分析不同音乐类型的最佳时间粒度。
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引用次数: 8
Why topology? 为什么拓扑?
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-05-03 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1799563
Dmitri Tymoczko
Music theorists have modeled voice leadings as paths through higher-dimensional configuration spaces. This paper uses topological techniques to construct two-dimensional diagrams capturing these spaces’ most important features. The goal is to enrich set theory’s contrapuntal power by simplifying the description of its geometry. Along the way, I connect homotopy theory to “transformational theory,” show how set-class space generalizes the neo-Riemannian transformations, extend the Tonnetz to arbitrary chords, and develop a simple contrapuntal “alphabet” for describing voice leadings. I mention several compositional applications and analyze short excerpts from Gesualdo, Mozart, Wagner, Stravinsky, Schoenberg, Schnittke, and Mahanthappa.
音乐理论家已经将声音引导建模为通过高维配置空间的路径。本文使用拓扑技术构建二维图,捕捉这些空间的最重要特征。目标是通过简化集合论的几何描述来丰富集合论的对位能力。在此过程中,我将同伦理论与“变换理论”联系起来,展示了集合类空间如何推广新黎曼变换,将Tonnetz扩展到任意和弦,并开发了一个简单的对位“字母表”来描述语音引导。我提到了几个作曲的应用,并分析了杰叟尔多、莫扎特、瓦格纳、斯特拉文斯基、勋伯格、施尼特克和马哈塔帕的作品。
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引用次数: 6
Mathematical approaches to defining the semitone in antiquity 古代定义半音的数学方法
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-04-30 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1753122
Caleb Mutch
Connections between mathematics and music have been recognized since the days of Ancient Greece. The Pythagoreans' association of musical intervals with integer ratios is so well known that it occludes the great variety of approaches to the music-mathematical relationship in Ancient Greece and Rome. The present article uncovers this diversity by examining how authors from Antiquity used one mathematical element – the number series 16, 17, 18 – to serve different ends. The number 17 provides the simplest way to divide the 9:8 whole tone into two parts, but the status of those two parts was debated, as was their relationship to the standard 256:243 semitone of Greek theory. I account for this diversity by appealing to the contexts in which the authors wrote – music treatises vs. commentaries on Plato's Timaeus – and to the importance placed on mathematics in Neoplatonist curricula. The article concludes by examining how confusion regarding the 16, 17, 18 series lingered even in the medieval period due to ambiguities in Boethius's De institutione musica, and how medieval authors eventually superseded the debate through a Euclid-inspired geometric division of the 9:8 ratio.
数学和音乐之间的联系早在古希腊时代就已被认识到。毕达哥拉斯学派将音程与整数比联系在一起的观点是如此广为人知,以至于它掩盖了古希腊和罗马研究音乐与数学关系的各种方法。本文通过研究古代作者如何使用一个数学元素——数字系列16,17,18——来达到不同的目的,揭示了这种多样性。数字17提供了将9:8全音分成两部分的最简单方法,但这两部分的地位存在争议,就像它们与希腊理论中标准的256:243半音的关系一样。为了解释这种差异,我诉诸于作者写作的背景——音乐专著与柏拉图《蒂迈欧》的评论——以及数学在新柏拉图主义课程中的重要性。文章的结论是,由于波伊提乌的《音乐制度》(De institutione musica)中的模糊性,即使在中世纪时期,关于16,17,18系列的困惑是如何挥之不去的,以及中世纪作者如何最终通过欧几里得启发的9:8比例几何划分取代了这场辩论。
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引用次数: 0
Symbolic structures in music theory and composition, binary keyboards, and the Thue–Morse shift 音乐理论与作曲中的符号结构,二进制键盘,以及休-莫尔斯变换
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-03-17 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1732490
R. Gómez, L. Nasser
We address the broad idea of using mathematical models to inform music theory and composition by implementing them directly in the process of music creation. The mathematical model we will use is the Thue–Morse dynamical system. We briefly survey previously published works that were similarly motivated, and then discuss a new piece of music we composed, inspired by this symbolic dynamical system. In the course of our analysis, we also present an alternative proof of the well-know fact that the Thue–Morse subshift has topological entropy zero that motivated us to think of the map between binary sequences and musical scales as “binary keyboards.” Indeed, the binary representation allows to study musical scales through mathematical properties of the sequences that define them; here we present the set of standard Thue–Morse scales and compare them with other well-known musical scales.
我们通过在音乐创作过程中直接实施数学模型来解决使用数学模型来告知音乐理论和作曲的广泛想法。我们将使用的数学模型是Thue-Morse动力系统。我们简要地回顾了之前发表的类似动机的作品,然后讨论了我们受这种符号动力系统的启发而创作的一首新音乐。在我们的分析过程中,我们还提出了一个众所周知的事实的替代证明,即Thue-Morse子位移具有拓扑熵为零,这促使我们将二进制序列和音阶之间的映射视为“二进制键盘”。事实上,二进制表示允许通过定义音阶的序列的数学特性来研究音阶;在这里,我们提出了一套标准的tue - morse音阶,并将它们与其他知名的音乐音阶进行比较。
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引用次数: 3
An alternative approach to generalized Pythagorean scales. Generation and properties derived in the frequency domain 广义毕达哥拉斯尺度的另一种方法。在频域的产生和性质推导
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-03-05 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1726690
R. Cubarsi
Abstract scales are formalized as a cyclic group of classes of projection functions related to iterations of the scale generator. Their representatives in the frequency domain are used to built cyclic sequences of tone iterates satisfying the closure condition. The refinement of cyclic sequences with regard to the best closure provides a constructive algorithm that allows to determine cyclic scales avoiding continued fractions. New proofs of the main properties are obtained as a consequence of the generating procedure. When the scale tones are generated from the two elementary factors associated with the generic widths of the step intervals we get the partition of the octave leading to the fundamental Bézout's identity relating several characteristic scale indices. This relationship is generalized to prove a new relationship expressing the partition that the frequency ratios associated with the two sizes composing the different step-intervals induce to a specific set of octaves.
抽象尺度被形式化为与尺度生成器迭代相关的投影函数类的循环组。利用它们在频域的表示构造满足闭包条件的音调迭代循环序列。关于最佳闭包的循环序列的细化提供了一个建设性的算法,允许确定循环尺度避免连分数。作为生成过程的结果,获得了主要性质的新证明。当音阶音调由与阶距一般宽度相关的两个基本因素产生时,我们得到八度的划分,从而得到与几个特征音阶指数相关的基本bsamzout身份。将这一关系推广,证明了一个新的关系,该关系表示组成不同步长间隔的两个大小所对应的频率比对特定八度的划分。
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引用次数: 1
Generalized Tonnetze and Zeitnetze, and the topology of music concepts 广义的韵律和韵律,以及音乐概念的拓扑结构
IF 1.1 2区 数学 Q1 Arts and Humanities Pub Date : 2020-03-02 DOI: 10.1080/17459737.2020.1725667
Jason Yust
The music-theoretic idea of a Tonnetz can be generalized at different levels: as a network of chords relating by maximal intersection, a simplicial complex in which vertices represent notes and simplices represent chords, and as a triangulation of a manifold or other geometrical space. The geometrical construct is of particular interest, in that allows us to represent inherently topological aspects to important musical concepts. Two kinds of music-theoretical geometry have been proposed that can house Tonnetze: geometrical duals of voice-leading spaces and Fourier phase spaces. Fourier phase spaces are particularly appropriate for Tonnetze in that their objects are pitch-class distributions (real-valued weightings of the 12 pitch classes) and proximity in these space relates to shared pitch-class content. They admit of a particularly general method of constructing a geometrical Tonnetz that allows for interval and chord duplications in a toroidal geometry. This article examines how these duplications can relate to important musical concepts such as key or pitch height, and details a method of removing such redundancies and the resulting changes to the homology of the space. The method also transfers to the rhythmic domain, defining Zeitnetze for cyclic rhythms. A number of possible Tonnetze are illustrated: on triads, seventh chords, ninth chords, scalar tetrachords, scales, etc., as well as Zeitnetze on common cyclic rhythms or timelines. Their different topologies – whether orientable, bounded, manifold, etc. – reveal some of the topological character of musical concepts.
Tonnetz的音乐理论思想可以在不同的层次上进行概括:作为一个由最大交集相连的和弦网络,作为一个简单的复合体,其中顶点代表音符,简单代表和弦,以及作为一个流形或其他几何空间的三角形。几何结构是特别有趣的,因为它允许我们表示重要音乐概念的内在拓扑方面。已经提出了两种可以容纳Tonnetze的音乐理论几何:声导空间的几何对偶和傅立叶相位空间。傅里叶相空间特别适合Tonnetze,因为它们的对象是音高类分布(12个音高类的实值加权),并且这些空间中的接近性与共享音高类内容有关。他们承认有一种特别普遍的构造几何Tonnetz的方法,这种方法允许环面几何中的音程和弦重复。本文研究了这些重复如何与重要的音乐概念(如键或音高)相关,并详细介绍了消除此类冗余的方法以及由此产生的空间同源性变化。该方法也转移到节奏领域,为循环节奏定义Zeitnetze。一些可能的顿音被说明:在三和弦,七和弦,九和弦,标量四和弦,音阶等,以及在常见的循环节奏或时间线上的顿音。它们不同的拓扑结构——可定向的、有界的、流形的等等——揭示了音乐概念的一些拓扑特征。
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