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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…
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Evolutionary modelling reveals melodic and harmonic constraints on global scale structure
John M McBride, Steven Brown, Elizabeth Phillips +2
Since antiquity, musical scales have been explained by harmony rather than melody. This view relies on the mathematically designed scales of a few traditions, and was never directl…