What is it about?
On the basis of an approach based on set theory, polyphonic pieces of music can be directly compared with each other using multi-track MIDI files, by creating fingerprint diagrams and barcode sequences by transforming pitch sets and, derived from these, 'quasi-phylogenies'.
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Why is it important?
With this approach, musicology may be able to perform systematic evolutionary analyses, comparable to a methodological approach that exists in evolutionary biology for more than three decades.
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It will be the task of the musicology community to establish and agree on conventions about metadata and to elaborate the analytic process regarding the various parameters to be selected .
Gerhard Rambold
Universitat Bayreuth
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This page is a summary of: Fingerprints, barcode sequences and quasi-phylogenies–Tools for analysing polyphonic music, PLoS ONE, March 2023, PLOS,
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0280478.
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