Common quantitative characteristics of music melodies — pursuing the constrained entropy maximization casually in composition

Nan N, Guan X H, Wang Y X, et al

Sci China Inf Sci, 2022, 65(7): 174201

Music with a beautiful melody has been appreciated by humankind for thousands of years. Almost all music is generally tonal, e.g., Western music originated from ancient Greece and developed for more than 300 years from Baroque to classical, romantic, and modern music. Tonal music has a