The "Benfordness" of Bach Music

Journal of Humanistic Mathematics

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Chadrack Bantange¹  Darby Burgett¹  Luke Haws¹  Sybil Prince Nelson¹ 

[1] Washington and Lee University

关键词: Johann Sebastian Bach;    Johann Christian Bach;    Benford's Law;    David Cope;    Emmy Cope;   

DOI  :  10.5642/jhummath.SGFV8169

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Claremont Center for the Mathematical Sciences

【 摘 要 】

In this paper we analyze the distribution of musical note frequencies in Hertz to see whether they follow the logarithmic Benford distribution. Our results show that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Christian Bach is Benford distributed while the computer-generated music is not. We also find that computer-generated music is statistically less Benford distributed than human- composed music.

【 授权许可】

CC BY-NC-ND