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Music Therapy Today - World Federation of Music Therapy

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<strong>Music</strong> <strong>Therapy</strong> <strong>Today</strong><br />

Vol. VII (2) (July) 2006<br />

Odds and ends - themes<br />

and trends<br />

Doch, Tom<br />

Permissions for Reuse Information entropy <strong>of</strong><br />

humpback whale songs<br />

Source: http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=nor-<br />

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©2006 Acoustical Society <strong>of</strong> America<br />

The Journal <strong>of</strong> the Acoustical Society <strong>of</strong> America -- March 2006 -- Vol-<br />

ume 119, Issue 3, pp. 1849-1866<br />

The structure <strong>of</strong> humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) songs was<br />

examined using information theory techniques. The song is an ordered<br />

sequence <strong>of</strong> individual sound elements separated by gaps <strong>of</strong> silence.<br />

Song samples were converted into sequences <strong>of</strong> discrete symbols by both<br />

human and automated classifiers.<br />

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