We measured the predictability of tone sequences in music by Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern and found the successive pitches were less predictable than random tone sequences.
How can something be less predictable than random? Doesn't random imply something which cannot be predicted?
In atonal music, it just sounds like a bunch of random pitches, though in reality everything is very sensible ... on paper.
To make more sense of it ... in a random thing, there are 12 pitches in an octave, so you'd have a 1/12 chance of getting it right. But in atonal music, the pitches are arranged so that one follows the other in a set pattern, and yet, when presented with music in this set pattern, people trying to guess the next note were probably worse than 1/12.
This message last edited by The_Muted_Grimaud on 24/05/2010 at 06:13:18 AM
My problem with the perception of 'modern classical' music.
- 23/05/2010 08:01:21 PM
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That was a terrible headline which belied the sensibleness of the rest of the article.
- 23/05/2010 11:31:05 PM
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LoLoLoLoL
- 24/05/2010 06:04:19 AM
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Though in truth ... I don't hate all atonal music. Every now and then it works.
- 24/05/2010 06:09:04 AM
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What bothers me, since I know so little about classical music in general, is this line:
- 24/05/2010 12:23:50 AM
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my guess ...
- 24/05/2010 06:06:25 AM
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The static between radio stations is random noise but I wouldn't call it unpredictable
- 24/05/2010 02:41:34 PM
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