Musical Style, Psychoaesthetics, and Prospects for Entropy as an Analytic Tool

• Published in: Computer music journal Vol. 32; no. 4; pp. 64 - 78
• Main Authors: Margulis, Elizabeth Hellmuth, Beatty, Andrew P.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 238 Main St., Suite 500, Cambridge, MA 02142-1046, USA MIT Press 01.12.2008; The MIT Press; MIT Press Journals, The
• Subjects: Barbershop quartets; Choirs; Entropy; Information technology; Melody; Music Analysis; Music cognition; Music psychology; Musical aesthetics; Musical rhythm; Musicology; Perceptions; Sound pitch; String quartets; Theory

For music, information has been understood to refer "to the freedom of choice which a composer has in working with his materials or to the degree of uncertainty which a listener feels in responding to the results of a composer's tonal choices" (Youngblood 1958, p. 25). This conceptual...