Lunchtime Research Seminars

What Does a Music Look Like?

Andrew Crompton

Date: Thursday 9th October 2019

Venue: G04a

Time: 13:00 - 14:00

When physical model was made of all the tunes in Denys Parsons’ Directory of Tunes, the results, showed a surprising checkerboard pattern. It is argued that the checkerboard is musically significant and arises because the distribution of repeating notes in tunes is non-random.