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Music theory

a GTTM hierarchy that ranks the pitch events within each rhythmic time-span by their structural importance.

In music theory, time-span reduction refers to a GTTM hierarchy that ranks the pitch events within each rhythmic time-span by their structural importance. This meaning comes from Lerdahl (1983) in A generative theory of tonal music.[1]

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References

Lerdahl, F., & Jackendoff, R. (1983). A generative theory of tonal music. MIT Press. ISBN 9780262620499

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