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juni 19, 2004
Kontext i musiken
I Nature-artikeln Tunes create context like language skriver Philip Ball om forskning som studerat musikstycken med hjälp av tekniker som användas för t.ex. naturliga språk (Zipf's law). Finns det språklikande kontext i musiken?
Några citat från artikeln:
Ever felt as though a piece of music is speaking to you? You could be right: musical notes are strung together in the same patterns as words in a piece of literature, according to an Argentinian physicist.
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Physicist Damian Zanette of the Balseiro Institute in Bariloche, Argentina, used this idea to test whether different types of music create a semantic context in a similar fashion.
Om skillnaden mellan tonal och icke-tonal musik:
Zanette says the finding implies that the reason many people find it unsatisfying to listen to atonal music is not simply because its harmonic and melodic structures are unfamiliar, but because the meaning or context of the piece is constantly changing.
Papret som refereras är
Damian H. Zanette: Zipf's law and the creation of musical context
Abstract:
This article discusses the extension of the notion of context from linguistics to the domain of music. In language, the statistical regularity known as Zipf's law -which concerns the frequency of usage of different words- has been quantitatively related to the process of text generation. This connection is established by Simon's model, on the basis of a few assumptions regarding the accompanying creation of context. Here, it is shown that the statistics of note usage in musical compositions are compatible with the predictions of Simon's model. This result, which gives objective support to the conceptual likeness of context in language and music, is obtained through automatic analysis of the digital versions of several compositions. As a by-product, a quantitative measure of context definiteness is introduced and used to compare tonal and atonal works.
Posted by hakank at juni 19, 2004 09:19 FM Posted to Komplexitet/emergens