Complex dynamics and musical structure
- 1 January 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Interface
- Vol. 19 (1), 3-14
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09298219008570553
Abstract
A piece of music is generally perceived as the time evolution of acoustical signals, but, because of its complexity, the intrinsic dynamics of the music cannot be easily identified or characterized. A musical sequence can also be considered as the time series resulting from a dynamical phenomenon. We show that the theory of dynamic systems provides interesting tools for the identification of complex dynamics in music.Keywords
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