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Did melody become a Schrödinger Cat? Commentary on Clark & Arthur

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Frieler,  Klaus       
Scientific Services, Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Max Planck Society;

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Frieler, K. (2023). Did melody become a Schrödinger Cat? Commentary on Clark & Arthur. Empirical Musicology Review, 17(2), 150-153. doi:10.18061/emr.v17i2.9548.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-000E-0DF1-4
Abstract
I comment on Clark and Arthur's response to a YouTuber’s claim of the death of melody for which they used corpus analysis and statistical methods of computational musicology. While I basically appreciate the effort, I also will discuss three pertinent problems I see ingrained here: whether such claims can be substantiated in any form in the first place, and how to react to dubious claims disseminated from YouTube musicology, and I will also shortly discuss some methodological issues.