Re: [MUSIC-IR] Re: musical complexity

[Eric Nichols <epnichols@xxxxxxxxx>]

This might have some of what you're looking for:

Hidden Structure: Music Analysis Using Computers
by Dave Cope, 2009

https://www.areditions.com/cmdas/DAS23/cmdas023.html


cheers,
Eric


> 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
>>