Laney, Robin, Samuels, Robert and Capulet, Emilie (2015) Cross entropy as a measure of musical contrast. In: Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 9110. Springer, Cham, Switzerland, pp. 193-198. ISBN 9783319206028

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Abstract

We present a preliminary study of using the information the- oretic concept of cross entropy to measure musical contrast in a symbolic context, with a focus on melody. We measure cross entropy using the Information Dynamics Of Music (IDyOM) framework. Whilst our long term aim is to understand the use of contrast in sonata form, in this paper we take a more general perspective and look at a broad spread of Western art music of the common practice era. Our results suggest that cross entropy has a useful role as an objective measure of contrast, but that a fuller picture will require more work.

Item Type:	Book Section
Identifier:	10.1007/978-3-319-20603-5_20
Additional Information:	© Springer Verlag 2015. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20603-5_20
Keywords:	Contrast, Similarity, Cross entropy, N gram model, Markov model
Subjects:	Computing Music
Depositing User:	Emilie Capulet
Date Deposited:	27 Apr 2016 15:07
Last Modified:	04 Nov 2024 12:38
URI:	https://repository.uwl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1943

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