The Well-tempered Computer
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music; computational analysis; key-analysis; harmony; consonance; grammar of music
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The psychological mechanism by which even musically untutored people can comprehend novel melodies resembles that by which they comprehend sentences of their native language. The paper identifies a syntax, a semantics, and a domain or "model". These elements are examined in application to the task of harmonic comprehension and analysis of unaccompanied melody, and a computational theory is argued for.
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1994-11-01
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University of Pennsylvania Institute for Research in Cognitive Science Technical Report No. IRCS-94-20.