A Probabilistic Context-Free Grammar for Melodic Reduction

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  • Darrell Conklin
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This article presents a method used to find tree structures in musical scores using a probabilistic grammar for melodic reduction. A parsing algorithm is used to find the optimal parse of a piece with respect to the grammar. The method is applied to parse phrases from Bach chorale melodies. The statistical model of music defined by the grammar is also used to evaluate the entropy of the studied pieces and thus to estimate a possible information compression figure for scores.

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تاریخ انتشار 2007