Melodic Differences Between Styles: Modeling Music With Step Inertia

A well-known phenomenon in melodic structure is “step inertia”: the tendency for a step to be followed by another step in the same direction. There is strong evidence of step inertia in three corpora of Western common-practice melodies: European folk songs, classical instrumental themes, and English...

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Main Authors: Matt Chiu, David Temperley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SAGE Publishing 2024-01-01
Series:Music & Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1177/20592043231225731