Parmer & Ahn, "Evolution of the Informational Complexity of Contemporary Western Music" (2019)
2019-11-04 → 2026-08-14
Thomas Parmer and Yong-Yeol Ahn, 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (2019)
Paper | arXiv | DOI | Code
@inproceedings{parmer2019music,
author = {Thomas J. Parmer and Yong-Yeol Ahn},
title = {Evolution of the Informational Complexity of Contemporary Western Music},
booktitle = {20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference},
doi = {10.5281/zenodo.3527772},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
eprint = {1907.04292},
primaryClass = {cs.SD},
year = {2019},
}
Measures the pitch, timbre, loudness, and rhythm complexity of songs from 1960–2010. Popular songs concentrate more narrowly around average complexity, while the temporal trends differ by musical dimension and genre.
Music complexity, Cultural evolution, Music information retrieval