On the Typicality of Musical Sequences

11/23/2022

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by   Mathias Rose Bjare, et al.

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It has been shown in a recent publication that words in human-produced English language tend to have an information content close to the conditional entropy. In this paper, we show that the same is true for events in human-produced monophonic musical sequences. We also show how "typical sampling" influences the distribution of information around the entropy for single events and sequences.