Representation of Texts in Terms of Repetitions 3. Description of the Experiment 4. Properties of IS-characteristics Invariant to the National Belonging 5. Nationally specific Features of Melodies 6. The essential structural components of any kind of text are repetitions.
Repetitions are very important for the classification of melodies by genre, style, composer, etc.
The basis of our work are the interval-metric characteristics of melodies. This peculiarity suggested the need to find out the specific features of French melodies which distinguish them from Russian and explain such phenomenon. For the present study we extended the material to include also a set of American folk songs. This enabled a more precise differentiation of the common and specific regularities in the sets of melodies. Representation Musical texts are multidimensional by nature, as every sound can be characterized by its pitch, duration, and metric accent.