This thesis presents and analyzes tools and experiments that aim at achieving multiple yet related goals in the exploration and manipulation of musical cyclic rhythms. The work presented in this thesis may be viewed as a preliminary study for the ultimate future goal of developing a general computational theory of rhythm. Given a family of rhythms, how does one reconstruct its ancestral rhythms? How should one change a rhythm's cycle length while preserving its musicologically salient properties, and hence be able to confirm or disprove popular or historical beliefs regarding its origins and evolution? How should one compare musical rhythms? How should one automatically generate rhythmic patterns? All these questions are addressed and, to a certain extent, solved in our study, and serve as a basis for the development of novel general tools, implemented in Matlab, for the manipulation of rhythms.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.101858 |
| Date | January 2007 |
| Creators | Khoury, Imad. |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (School of Computer Science.) |
| Rights | © Imad Khoury, 2007 |
| Relation | alephsysno: 002669369, proquestno: AAIMR38409, Theses scanned by UMI/ProQuest. |
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