Musical Expectancy: Modeling and Transitions

This lecture delves into the concept of musical expectancy, exploring how we form expectancies in music through examples from J.S. Bach's compositions. The instructor discusses different types of musical expectancy, models for latent structures, and the use of Markov models to represent pitch class transitions. Various computational issues related to modeling musical structures are also covered, such as N-gram models and the challenges of rare contexts. The presentation concludes with a study on Jazz harmony, highlighting the effectiveness of bigram and trigram models in analyzing Jazz standards.