On the mathematics of beauty: beautiful music
A. M. Khalili
TL;DR
This paper explores the mathematical basis of musical beauty, demonstrating that aesthetically pleasing music contains more layered information than less appealing music with equal energy.
Contribution
It introduces a model linking musical beauty to layered information content, tested on a set of universally appreciated music pieces.
Findings
Beautiful music has higher multi-level information content.
Aesthetic appeal correlates with information richness.
The model is validated on real music samples.
Abstract
In this paper, we will study the simplest kind of beauty that can be found in a simple piece of music and can be appreciated universally. The proposed approach shows that aesthetically appealing patterns deliver higher amount of information over multiple levels in comparison with less aesthetically appealing patterns when the same amount of energy is used. The proposed model is tested on a set of beautiful music pieces.
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Taxonomy
TopicsAesthetic Perception and Analysis · Image Retrieval and Classification Techniques · Data Visualization and Analytics