2 papers
cs.SD2024
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…
q-bio.PE2020
Phylogenetic reconstruction of the cultural evolution of electronic music via dynamic community detection (1975-1999)
Mason Youngblood, Karim Baraghith, Patrick E. Savage
Cultural phylogenies, or "trees" of culture, are typically built using methods from biology that use similarities and differences in artifacts to infer the historical relationships…