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cs.SD2026
Evolutionary modelling reveals melodic and harmonic constraints on global scale structure
John M McBride, Steven Brown, Elizabeth Phillips +2
The paper uses evolutionary and statistical models on a cross‑cultural dataset of 1,314 musical scales to show that melodic constraints, rather than harmonic ones, primarily shape…
cs.SD2026
What is a Musical Scale? Regularity and Convention in the Organization of Pitch
John M McBride
The paper defines a musical scale as a statistical regularity of pitch relative to a tonic, showing how conventions and naming influence scale identification and illustrating the a…
cs.SD2025
Information and motor constraints shape melodic diversity across cultures
John M McBride, Nahie Kim, Yuri Nishikawa +3
The number of possible melodies is unfathomably large, yet despite this virtually unlimited potential for melodic variation, melodies from different societies can be surprisingly s…