Fractal Music

Duration Scaling

CounterPoint

We can achieve a more uniform distribution of durations by adding some counterpoint. Below is a two-part version of this melody. It has twice as many notes and an identical distribution of duration values.
While this piece is too short to reasonably be categorized as fractal with respect to duration, it certainly suggests that larger compositions in the same style could possess a self-similar distribution of duration values.

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