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Computation of words satisfying the “rhythmic oddity property” (after Simha Arom's works)

✍ Scribed by Marc Chemillier; Charlotte Truchet

Publisher: Elsevier Science
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Weight: 125 KB
Volume: 86
Category: Article
ISSN: 0020-0190
DOI: 10.1016/s0020-0190(02)00521-5

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✦ Synopsis

This paper addresses the problem of enumerating all words having a combinatoric property called "rhythmic oddity property". This enumeration is motivated by the fact that this property is satisfied by many rhythmic patterns used in traditional Central African music.