Temporality lies at the very heart of music, and the play with rhythmic and metrical structures
constitutes a major device across musical styles and genres. Rhythmic and metrical …

Music often evokes a regular beat and a pleasurable sensation of wanting to move to that
beat called groove. Recent studies show that a rhythmic pattern's ability to evoke groove …

We present a novel model for the characterization of musical rhythms that is based on the
pervasive rhythmic phenomenon of syncopation. Syncopation is felt when the sensation of …

Syncopation–the occurrence of a musical event on a metrically weak position preceding a
rest on a metrically strong position–represents an important challenge in the study of the …

Computational models and analyses of musical rhythms are predominantly based on the
subdivision of durations down to a common isochronous pulse, which plays a fundamental …

Abstract Nowadays, Music Information Retrieval applications are rapidly increasing, with
particular attention to classification of musical content into userfriendly descriptors, starting …

Traditional rhythmic sequencing techniques are often not ideal to program complex evolving
patterns as they offer only linear control to the player. Techniques available to generate …