Connectionist Representations of Tonal Music: Discovering Musical Patterns by Interpreting Artificial Neural Networks

• Main Author: Michael R. W. Dawson (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Athabasca University Press 2018
• Subjects: Psychology; Western classical; perceptrons; extended chords; circle of fifths; scales; tonal harmony; Coltrane
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Previously, artificial neural networks have been used to capture only the informal properties of music. However, cognitive scientist Michael Dawson found that by training artificial neural networks to make basic judgments concerning tonal music, such as identifying the tonic of a scale or the qualit...