Expectancy-Violation and Information-Theoretic Models of Melodic Complexity

The present study assesses two types of models for melodic complexity: one based on expectancy violations and the other one related to an information-theoretic account of redundancy in music. Seven different datasets spanning artificial sequences, folk and pop songs were used to refine and assess th...

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Main Author: Tuomas Eerola
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Ohio State University Libraries 2016-07-01
Series:Empirical Musicology Review
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i1.4836