@InProceedings{    parmer.ea2019-evolution,
    author       = {Parmer, Thomas and Ahn, Yong-Yeol},
    year         = {2019},
    title        = {Evolution of the Informational Complexity of Contemporary
                   Western Music},
    abstract     = {We measure the complexity of songs in the Million Song
                   Dataset (MSD) in terms of pitch, timbre, loudness, and
                   rhythm to investigate their evolution from 1960 to 2010.
                   By comparing the Billboard Hot 100 with random samples, we
                   find that the complexity of popular songs tends to be more
                   narrowly distributed around the mean, supporting the idea
                   of an inverted U-shaped relationship between complexity
                   and hedonistic value. We then examine the temporal
                   evolution of complexity, reporting consistent changes
                   across decades, such as a decrease in average loudness
                   complexity since the 1960s, and an increase in timbre
                   complexity overall but not for popular songs. We also
                   show, in contrast to claims that popular songs sound more
                   alike over time, that they are not more similar than they
                   were 50 years ago in terms of pitch or rhythm, although
                   similarity in timbre shows distinctive patterns across
                   eras and similarity in loudness has been increasing.
                   Finally, we show that musical genres can be differentiated
                   by their distinctive complexity profiles.},
    address      = {Delft, The Netherlands},
    archiveprefix= {arXiv},
    arxivid      = {1907.04292},
    booktitle    = {Proceedings of the 20th International Society for Music
                   Information Retrieval Conference},
    doi          = {10.5281/zenodo.3527772},
    eprint       = {1907.04292},
    keywords     = {music analysis with computers},
    mendeley-tags= {music analysis with computers},
    pages        = {175--182},
    url          = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1907.04292}
}

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