The Complexity of the Musical Vocabulary of the Nzakara Harpists

Year: 2005 Authors: Barbra Gregory

Core claim

Hand-movement distance between bichords provides a useful complexity measure for evaluating Nzakara harp cores, including grammatical and non-grammatical patterns.

Topics

musical complexity, ethnomathematics, pattern analysis, Nzakara harp music

Domains

combinatorics, discrete structures, group-like labeling in Z_5, complexity measures, music, ethnomusicology, cultural heritage, performance analysis

Methods

bichord distance metric, core comparison, pattern cataloging, complexity measurement

Media

five-string harp, bichords, repeated cores, tables of measurements

Source status

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