Figure 1.

Example of a piano melody and all the applied transformations of experiment 1. The beats are annotated above the staffs. (A) The original quantized melody. An arch marks the duration of each phrase of the melody (in this example: the first two bars and the last two bars). (B) 8D8A. The last “strong” note of each phrase is anticipated by an 8 note. The “weak” quarter notes are shifted to the 8 note position preceding the following strong beat. (C) 8D16A. The last “strong” note of each phrase is anticipated by a 16 note. The “weak” quarter notes are shifted to the 8 note position preceding the following strong beat. (D) 16D8A. The last “strong” note of each phrase is anticipated by an 8 note. The “weak” quarter notes are shifted to the 16 note position preceding the following strong beat. (E) 16D16A. The last “strong” note of each phrase is anticipated by a 16 note. The “weak” quarter notes are shifted to the 16 note position preceding the following strong beat.