Pitch-and-rhythm interrelationships modelling by subdivision schemes

What is it about?

The paper shows that the relations between pitch and rhythm are important features that can be used for music analysis and classification. Specifically, we propose modelling the relationships between pitch and rhythm using a mathematical technique called subdivision schemes, based on a new analogy that we propose between these methods and musical hierarchies. We also harness our new concepts to classify pieces generated by the Mozart's dice game .

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Why is it important?

The new analogy proposed between subdivision schemes and musical hierarchies is intriguing and shown to be useful in analyzing musical pieces. Moreover, relations between pitch and rhythm were studied before mainly from the angle of music perception, but we also propose and show how to use them systematically as features for automatic analysis and classification of music.