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physics.soc-ph2021★ 11 cited
Lognormals, Power Laws and Double Power Laws in the Distribution of Frequencies of Harmonic Codewords from Classical Music
Marc Serra-Peralta, Joan Serrà, Álvaro Corral
Zipf's law is a paradigm describing the importance of different elements in communication systems, especially in linguistics. Despite the complexity of the hierarchical structure o…
cs.SD2021★ 8 cited
Heaps' Law and Vocabulary Richness in the History of Classical Music Harmony
Marc Serra-Peralta, Joan Serrà, Álvaro Corral
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 ev…