On the Question of Meter in African Rhythm: A Quantitative Mathematical Assessment

Year: 2013 Authors: Godfried T. Toussaint

Core claim

Correlation and rank analysis of pulse saliency histograms provide evidence that African and Western rhythms are similar and that African rhythm can exhibit hierarchical meter.

Topics

pulse saliency histograms, African and Western rhythm, hierarchical meter, statistical music analysis

Domains

statistics, correlation analysis, rank correlation, quantitative comparison, music theory, ethnomusicology, musicology

Methods

Pearson correlation, Spearman rank correlation, histogram comparison, corpus analysis

Media

symbolically notated music, musical rhythm corpora, timelines, Western songs

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