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Record W7155224467 · doi:10.7202/1124288ar

Rhythmic Regularity Beyond Meter and Isochrony

2025· article· en· W7155224467 on OpenAlexvenueno aff
Jason Yust

Bibliographic record

VenueRevue musicale OICRM · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldArts and Humanities
TopicMusicology and Musical Analysis
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRhythmTimelineRepresentation (politics)MetreFunction (biology)Key (lock)Jazz

Abstract

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Classical meter theory, derived from European, notation-based musical practice, requires notionally absolute isochrony. This article proposes a more flexible concept of rhythmic frequencies (or periodicities) represented by continuous functions over time, and develops rhythmic theory from it that is more global in scope. A rhythm is a good fit to a given frequency if its onsets are close to peaks of one of these functions, without having to precisely coincide. This provides some useful tools for understanding properties of rhythms and how different rhythms interact, including the rhythmic spectrum which shows all the frequencies present in a rhythm. Maximally even rhythms like the African standard pattern and tamborim rhythm of samba, are those which maximize a given frequency for a given grid, and often function as basic rhythms (e.g. “timelines” or claves) in many musical traditions, as do other rhythms, like the “Bo Diddley” rhythm and Clave Son, with strong representation of a single frequency. When rhythms expressing nearby frequencies are combined, they interact to produce slow phase shifts over longer cycles, a feature of timeline rhythms, and also more complex isorhythmic designs in, for example, the late music of György Ligeti, and recent jazz compositions by Dave King and Miles Okazaki.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.885
Threshold uncertainty score0.997

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.012
GPT teacher head0.210
Teacher spread0.197 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

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