Evenness preserving operations on musical rhythms

In this paper we define four operations on musical rhythms that preserve a property called maximal evenness. The operations we describe are shadow, complementation, concatenation, and alternation. Categories and Subject Descriptors F.2 [Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity]: Nonnumerical Algorithms and Problems--Geometrical problems and computations General Terms Music Theory Keywords music, rhythms, operations, geometry

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2008
• Where: C3S2E
• Authors: Francisco Gomez-Martin, Perouz Taslakian, Godfried T. Toussaint
• Keywords: C3S2E 2008, Computations General Terms, Maximal Evenness, Music Theory Keywords, Software Engineering