A Comparative Phylogenetic-Tree Analysis of African Timelines and North Indian Talas

Year: 2008 Authors: Eric Thul; Godfried T. Toussaint

Core claim

Angle-distance performs equivalently to chronotonic-distance and better supports rhythm comparison than the dissimilarity measures proposed by Irfan et al.

Topics

rhythm comparison, phylogenetic analysis, music information retrieval, culture-based classification

Domains

phylogenetic algorithms, distance measures, edit distance, binary sequences, music, ethnomusicology, world rhythms

Methods

comparative analysis, phylogenetic-tree analysis, rhythm dissimilarity metrics, clustering

Media

symbolic rhythm strings, circular lattice polygons, turning function, binary notation

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