ABSTRACT Old Hispanic liturgy was practised across much of medieval Iberia until c. 1080. In this article we analyse the extant processional antiphons, focusing on: presence or absence verses; amount text and relationship with Bible; cadence placement; number notes per chant (melodic density) syllable; melodic repetition within between chants. We demonstrate that antiphons are neither a homogen...

We discuss why evaluating melodic segmentation is difficult when solutions are ambiguous and explore the nature of this ambiguity using a corpus of melodies hand-segmented by musicians. For each melody, the musicians identified different, musically coherent solutions, suggesting that ambiguity should be modeled when assessing how “well” an algorithm segments the same melody. We propose a probab...

In a harmonic analysis task, melodic analysis determines the importance and role of each note in a particular harmonic context. Thus, a note is classified as a harmonic tone when it belongs to the underlying chord, and as a non-harmonic tone otherwise, with a number of categories in this latter case. Automatic systems for fully solving this task without errors are still far from being available...

Auditory perception involves not only hearing a series of sounds but also making predictions about future ones. For typical listeners, these predictions are formed on the basis of long-term schematic knowledge, gained over a lifetime of exposure to the auditory environment. Individuals with a developmental disorder known as congenital amusia show marked difficulties with music perception and pr...