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my guess ... - Edit 1

Before modification by The_Muted_Grimaud at 24/05/2010 06:13:18 AM

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?
if you just have a bunch of random pitches follow each other, stands to reason that every now and then something sensible that people would expect might happen.

In atonal music, it just sounds like a bunch of random pitches, though in reality everything is very sensible ... on paper.

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