Traditional and emotional stylometric analysis of the songs of beatles paul mccartney and john lennon

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 257-265

  Whissell, Cynthia ^a  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beatles; Emotional stylometric analysis; Music; Stylometric analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 1542792475     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF00055109     Document Type: Article

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