EXAMPLE TESTING


Example 1. Ticking clock in Haydn’s Symphony no. 101 in D major, II, mm. 1–5

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Example 2. Toy horse assembly line in À nous la Liberté’s French prison

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Example 3. The prisoners’ melody, À nous la Liberté (transcribed by author)

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Example 4. The “line workers” of Metropolis

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Example 5. Allegro, Stampfende Kolben, Metropolis

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Example 6. Stomping Pistons (“Stampfende Kolben”), Metropolis

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Example 7. Stomping Pistons (“Vertikale Lichtstreifen”), Metropolis

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Example 8a. Vertikale Lichtstreifen, Metropolis

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Example 8b. Jagged, dissonant melodic line; Metropolis

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Example 9. Chaplin as an assembly line worker in Modern Times

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Example 10. Chaplin and the Bee, Modern Times

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Example 11. The distracting bee, Modern Times (transcribed by author)

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Example 12. Chromatic sequence, Strings, Modern Times (transcribed by author)

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Example 13. Chaplin in the machine, Modern Times

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Example 14. Challenging rhythms and doublings in Bargy’s “Jim Jams”

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Example 15. “Kitten on the Keys,” Trio, mm. 64–70

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Example 16. Particularly difficult syncopation in “Kitten on the Keys,” Trio, mm. 95–98

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Example 17. Hypermetric Complexity in “Poor Buttermilk”

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Example 18. Melodic simplification of m. 24, “Poor Buttermilk”

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Example 19. Antheil Caricature, 1927

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Example 20a. Ballet Mécanique’s hidden melody

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Example 20b. Ballet Mécanique’s hidden melody (all pianola parts), mm. 1–5

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Example 21. Mapping Ballet Mécanique’s Melodic Variants; Chart labels correspond to labels in score in Example 20a

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Example 22. The happy oven, Edward Scissorhands

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Example 23. The smiling, red-eyed whisking machine, Edward Scissorhands

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Example 24. The inventor gives the machine a sugary heart, Edward Scissorhands

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Example 25. Hugo’s father’s automaton, Hugo

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Example 26. Hugo’s nightmare, Hugo

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