Re: [MUSIC-IR] musical complexity

[Martin Eckart <imartron@xxxxxxxxx>]

Don Knuth's "The Complexity of Songs" probably isn't exactly what you're
looking for but a good read nonetheless:
http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.117.91&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Cheers,
-martin

On Thu, 2011-08-11 at 15:29 +0100, Tom Cochrane wrote:
> (apologies for cross postings)
> 
> Dear listmembers
> 
> Does anyone know of any important articles or books which discuss the 
> issue of musical complexity? I am particularly interested to find papers 
> that debate how musical complexity should be understood at a high 
> theoretical level. For instance, should musical complexity be understood 
> in purely information theoretic terms or in terms of our psychological 
> capacity to predict and remember (e.g. analogous to the way that 
> amplitude differs from perceived loudness)?
> 
> cheers
> 
> Tom
> 
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