A new methodology for automated extraction of repeated patterns in time-series data is presented, aimed in particular at the analysis of musical sequences. The basic principles consists in a search for closed patterns in a multi-dimensional parametric space. It is shown that this basic mechanism needs to be articulated with a periodic pattern discovery system, implying therefore a strict chrono...

ethno-musicology is an academic field encompassing various approaches to the study of music that emphasize its cultural, social, material, cognitive, biological, and other dimensions or contexts instead of its isolated ‘sound’ component or any particular repertoire. the term ‘ethno-musicology’ became common in1950, although the emergence of the field can be traced back to the late nineteenth ce...

Musical Offerings is an online, undergraduate musicology journal whose mission to publish articles on topics in any area of musicology, ethnomusicology, music history, or church history. Articles for consideration must be written by current students from major field study.