Preferences in Musical Rhythms and Implementation of Analytical Results to Generate Rhythms

Rhythm is at the heart of all music. It is the variation of the duration of sound over time. A rhythm has two components: one is the striking of an instrument – called the "onset" – and the other is silence. Historically, musical forms and works were preferred and became popular by their rhythmic properties. Therefore, to study rhythm is to study the underpinnings of all of music. In this thesis, we explore basic rhythmic preferences in traditional music and, using this as a point of reference, methods are implemented to generate similar types of rhythms. Finally, a software platform to facilitate such an analysis is developed – it is the first of its kind available to our best knowledge as this research field has only recently emerged.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Year

2008

Author dc:creator

• Sorakayala, Shashidhar

Contributors dc:contributor

• DePano, Adlai
• Tu, Shengru
• Richard III, Golden

• The Evenness Method
• Interval vector method
• Euclidean method
• Comparison measure
• Erdos-deep method

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/884

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholarworks.uno.edu:td-1864