“Bold and Ragged”: A Cross-Cultural Case for the Aesthetics of Melodic Angularity
Smaller corpora and individual pieces are compared to a large corpus of 2,447 hymns using two measures of melodic angularity: mean interval size and pivot frequency. European art music and West African melodies may exhibit extreme angularity. We argue in the latter that angularity is motivated by li...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2020-09-01
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| Series: | Music & Science |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1177/2059204320949065 |