Tonal Music as a Componential Code: Learning Temporal Relationships Between and Within Pitch and Timing Components
Abstract
This study explores the extent to which a network that learns the temporal relationships within and between the component features of Western tonal music can account for music theoretic and psychological phenomena such as the tonal hierarchy and rhythmic expectancies. Predicted and generated sequences were recorded as the representation of a 153-note waltz melody was learnt by a predictive, recurrent network. The network learned transitions and relations between and within pitch and timing components: accent and duration values interacted in the development of rhythmic and metric structures and, with training, the network developed chordal expectancies in response to the activation of individual tones. Analysis of the hidden unit representation revealed that musical sequences are represented as transitions between states in hidden unit space.
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Stevens and Wiles. "Tonal Music as a Componential Code: Learning Temporal Relationships Between and Within Pitch and Timing Components." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1993.Markdown
[Stevens and Wiles. "Tonal Music as a Componential Code: Learning Temporal Relationships Between and Within Pitch and Timing Components." Neural Information Processing Systems, 1993.](https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1993/stevens1993neurips-tonal/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{stevens1993neurips-tonal,
title = {{Tonal Music as a Componential Code: Learning Temporal Relationships Between and Within Pitch and Timing Components}},
author = {Stevens, Catherine and Wiles, Janet},
booktitle = {Neural Information Processing Systems},
year = {1993},
pages = {1085-1092},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/neurips/1993/stevens1993neurips-tonal/}
}