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  • Rests–What to Do With Them?

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    As a point of vocabulary, we often use “rests” and “rest events” interchangeably.  A rest event can either be a single rest, such as a quarter note rest, or a series of rests, such as a quarter note rest followed by one or more rests of any duration. If there is a note between two…

  • Heaps Law, 2-note words, Part VIII (Final)

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    We wrap up the discussion on Heaps Law this week by summarizing what we’ve learned so far and making a final decision for what definition of “word” we use when we get around to training the AI model.  This table summarizes all the Heaps Curve analyses performed: The first two rows refer to human natural…

  • Heaps Law, 2-note words, Part VII

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    This week we perform our last analysis of Heaps Law using 2-note words, and we do so by shuffling the database 1,000 times and performing a Heaps Law analysis on each one, calculating the statistical properties of that shuffled deck, and compare it to our year-ordered analysis.  The results are highly informative. We start with…

  • Heaps Law, 2-note Words, Part VI

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    The next part of our exploration into Heaps Curves is to analyze the Skiptune corpus after it has been ordered by year of composition and publication. As this is a blog, we are constantly updating and adding to the database between the weekly publications. At this point, we happen to have an even 83,400 number…