A computational analysis on the relationship between melodic originality and thematic fame in classical music from the Romantic period

2022/10/21 by Hudson Griffith, Griffith, Hudson
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Diverse Musicological Studies #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Multimedia (cs.MM) #Music and Audio Processing #Musicology and Musical Analysis

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2210.12201

openalex publication_date 2022/10/21 · openalex created_date 2022/10/31 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

In this work, the researcher presents a novel approach to calculating melodic originality based on the research by Simonton (1994). This novel formula is then applied to a dataset of 428 classical music pieces from the Romantic period to analyze the relationship between melodic originality and thematic fame.

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