Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony

Heaps’ law and vocabulary richness in the history of classical music harmony

Abstract Music is a fundamental human construct, and harmony provides the building blocks of musical language. Using the Kunstderfuge corpus of classical music, we analyze the historical evolution of the richness of harmonic vocabulary of 76 classical composers, covering almost 6 centuries. Such cor...

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Main Authors: Marc Serra-Peralta, Joan Serrà, Álvaro Corral
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-08-01
Series:EPJ Data Science
Subjects:
Heaps’ law
Entropy
MIDI scores
Harmonic richness
Culturomics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1140/epjds/s13688-021-00293-8

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