Phylogenetic Analysis of the Ancient Greek Paeonic Rhythms

Year: 2016 Authors: Godfried T. Toussaint

Core claim

The paeonic rhythm family shows measurable historical evolution, and phylogenetic analysis identifies the cretic as a central ancestral prototype.

Topics

ancient Greek rhythm, correlation analysis, phylogenetic trees, quintuple meter

Domains

edit distance, Spearman rank correlation, neighbor-joining, distance matrix, music theory, historical musicology, rhythm analysis

Methods

correlation analysis, phylogenetic analysis, BioNJ algorithm, centrality measure

Media

binary rhythm sequences, box notation, Delphic hymns, SplitsTree-4 software

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