Modelling tonal attraction: tonal hierarchies, interval cycles, and quantum probabilities

Soft Computing

Volumn 21, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1401-1419

  Blutner, Reinhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective meaning of music; Computational music theory; Generative music theory; Interval cycles; Musical expectation; Quantum cognition; Tonal attraction

Indexed keywords

GROUP THEORY;

AFFECTIVE MEANING OF MUSIC; GENERATIVE MUSICS; INTERVAL CYCLES; MUSIC THEORY; MUSICAL EXPECTATION; QUANTUM COGNITION; TONAL ATTRACTION;

COMPUTATION THEORY;

EID: 84938520513     PISSN: 14327643     EISSN: 14337479     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00500-015-1801-7     Document Type: Article

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