Contour reduction algorithms : a theory of pitch and duration hierarchies for post-tonal music

This dissertation takes work on contour by Robert Morris as a point of departure and develops a set of contour reduction algorithms, called "window algorithms." These involve the notion of a hypothetical window or frame of a specific width (i.e. number of events) through which the contour...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bor, Mustafa
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: University of British Columbia 2009
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7017