Re: musical complexity

[Wolfgang Dreier <wolfgang.dreier@xxxxxx>]

Dear Tom,

in addition, maybe some (german) publications within the field of 
systemic musicology might also be of interest to you, for instance
Louven 1998, who also provides an english summary in his dissertation:

@BOOK{Lou98,
  title = {Die Konstruktion von Musik. Theoretische und experimentelle 
Studien zu den Prinzipien der musikalischen Kognition},
  year = {1998},
  author = {Louven, Christoph},
  number = {1},
  series = {Systemische Musikwissenschaft},
  address = {Frankfurt am Main},
  owner = {whoever},
  timestamp = {xxxx.xx.xx}
}

Louven (as well as for instance Jobst P. Fricke, some papers might be 
found online) deals with meaning of music and decoding by the listener 
(beyond primitive auditory scene analysis, including the generation of 
schemata), which might also be important for raising questions 
concerning the "complexity" of music (or what the latter means for the 
listener).

All the best,
Wolfgang


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Am 11.08.2011 16:29, schrieb Tom Cochrane:
> (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