Dynamical systems theory for music dynamics

Details Dynamical systems theory for music dynamics Dynamical systems theory for music dynamics

1994-11-26

arxiv.org/abs/chao-dyn/9411022v1

Nonlinear Sciences

Chaotic Dynamics

To appear in CHAOS. Figures and Tables (not included) can be obtained from jpboon@ulb.ac.be

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.166145

We show that, when music pieces are cast in the form of time series of pitch variations, the concepts and tools of dynamical systems theory can be applied to the analysis of {\it temporal dynamics} in music. (i) Phase space portraits are constructed from the time series wherefrom the dimensionality is evaluated as a measure of the {\pit global} dynamics of each piece. (ii) Spectral analysis of the time series yields power spectra ($\sim f^{-\nu}$) close to {\pit red noise} ($\nu \sim 2$) in the low frequency range. (iii) We define an information entropy which provides a measure of the {\pit local} dynamics in the musical piece; the entropy can be interpreted as an evaluation of the degree of {\it complexity} in the music, but there is no evidence of an analytical relation between local and global dynamics. These findings are based on computations performed on eighty sequences sampled in the music literature from the 18th to the 20th century.

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