<story><title>Universal Property of Music Discovered</title><url>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>mycroftiv</author><text>I like this type of research, but I think these results are not really new or surprising. In fact, there is almost a kind of &quot;circular reasoning&quot; at work - the Euler lattice (or Tonnetz) was constructed for the purpose of trying to represent the relationship of the basic music musical intervals. The fact that the basis of scales is the set of simple harmonic ratios of an initial pitch has been asserted by theorists for centuries, and that is what these star-convex structures correspond to. In other words, this research confirms that the established and traditional theory of scales and harmonic relationships is indeed the basis of human music of most cultures.</text></comment>
<story><title>Universal Property of Music Discovered</title><url>http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110325102008.htm</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>MJR</author><text>First, this is cool. As someone who studied Sound Engineering it&apos;s not often that you see this type of post on HN.&lt;p&gt;Second - The scientific journal that published the article looks really interesting - The Journal of New Music Research. I wasn&apos;t aware of this. Now to find out if the local college library subscribes!
&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t713817838&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t71381...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Also, looks like a future issue in 2011 will be a special issue on &apos;Music and Machine Learning&apos;
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