Using algorithms and mathematical models, researchers examined the evolution of pitch and rhythm in hit melodies over the past seven decades. Their results, published last week in the journal Scientific Reports, suggest that both elements have become steadily less complex.
“Conservatively, they have both decreased by 30 percent,” lead author Madeline Hamilton, a computer scientist at Queen Mary University of London, tells the New York Times’ Alexander Nazaryan.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pop-music-melodies-have-gotten-simpler-over-time-180984695
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