Fame, Obscurity and Power Laws in Music History
This paper investigates the processes leading to musical fame or obscurity, whether for composers, performers, or works themselves. It starts from the observation that the patterns of success, across many historical music datasets, follow a similar mathematical relationship known as a power law, oft...
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| Language: | English |
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The Ohio State University Libraries
2020-07-01
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| Series: | Empirical Musicology Review |
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| Online Access: | https://emusicology.org/article/view/7003 |