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Periodic musical sequences and Lyndon words

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When one enumerates periodic musical structures, the computation is done up to a cyclic shift. This means that two solutions which are cyclic shifts of one another are considered the same. Lyndon words provide a powerful way to do so. We illustrate this by two examples taken from African traditional music.

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  1. IRCAM-UMR, CNRS 9912, 1 place Igor Stravinsky, F-75004, Paris, France

    M. Chemillier

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Chemillier, M. Periodic musical sequences and Lyndon words. Soft Computing 8, 611–616 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00500-004-0387-2

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