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RE: lyrics and music? - extent_of_foxes - 04-05-2025
I thought of two simpler tests.
In cases where there are multiple paragraphs that seem to be "related", and the paragraphs are of different sizes, the musical hypothesis predicts that there should be statistical differences between them. In the simplest case, probably some glyphs are more common in large or small paragraphs. My thinking is that if the paragraphs are intended to have the same duration, but some contain more written text, then:
- If the larger paragraphs contain more notes, the notes must be shorter, which probably means different rhythmic indications.
- If the larger paragraphs contain more lyrics, then the proportion of lyrics to non-lyrics will be larger.
- If the larger paragraphs contain notes which are more complicated somehow, then the proportion of the text which encodes those complications will be larger.
The other prediction is that the last words of paragraphs should have something in common: a longer rhythmic value. Across the whole MS, shorter durations shouldn't appear at the end of paragraphs. In sets of "related" paragraphs, the last words of each should be even more likely to have the same rhythmic value.
Also, the last words of "related" paragraphs might often have the same pitch, but this is a weaker prediction. Across the whole MS, the final words of paragraphs should not be as clearly aligned in pitch as they are in rhythm. The ideal result for this hypothesis would be that final words of "related" paragraphs have two things in common, one of which is shared across unrelated paragraphs and one of which isn't.
RE: lyrics and music? - extent_of_foxes - 05-05-2025
RE: lyrics and music? - extent_of_foxes - 05-05-2025
RE: lyrics and music? - Bluetoes101 - 05-05-2025
RE: lyrics and music? - extent_of_foxes - 06-05-2025