Numerical Tools for Describing Musical Compositions
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Authors
Price, Jacob R.
Issue Date
2012
Type
Thesis
Language
en_US
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Abstract
The goal of this paper is to apply the methodologies of statistical mechanics to
develop flexible tools for use in computational musicology. Classical statistical mechanics
is the study of extremely information-rich particle systems. Large quantities
of information describing the position and velocity of each particle may be compressed
into a few descriptive variables such as temperature and pressure. These variables are
easily perceived by an observer. In the same way, we will distill information from the
scores of musical compositions, producing new macroscopic quantities that describe
perceptible features of the music.
Description
vii, 25 p.
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Publisher
Kalamazoo College
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