Music, Science, Statistics

Monthly Archives: May, 2011

Position Finding With Tritones in Nondiatonic Music

I’ve been playing with this idea of position finding with tritones, and beginning to apply it to music that is not strictly diatonic. In particular, it seems as though it should be possible to describe scales as conjoint tritones in order to begin thinking in terms of regions of local diatonicity. The idea goes back [...]

Statistical Proofs in Apropos

Well, the blog has made it, after some futzing with css and things of that sort. The accordions were choking just a bit when I tried to incorporate the blog posts, but after some sleuthing I uncovered a dangling div-tag. Hopefully soon I’ll plunge into the css maze and try to cull out the unneeded [...]

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Yuri Broze

Yuri Broze is a music guru and sciencehead currently pursuing a PhD in Music Theory and an MS in Statistics at Ohio State University. His current academic haunt is the Cognitive and Systematic Musicology Laboratory, spearheaded by David Huron. Yuri is an award-winning choral arranger, has written on a cappella arranging, teaches piano lessons, tinkers with websites, and smells hardbound books.