Measuring the evolution of contemporary western popular music

Scientific Reports

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Serrà, Joan ^a   Corral, Álvaro ^b   Boguñá, Marián ^c   Haro, Martín ^d   Arcos, Josep Ll ^a  

^a ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE IIIA CSIC   (Spain)

^b CENTRE DE RECERCA MATEMÀTICA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; HEARING; HUMAN; MUSIC; SOUND DETECTION;

HUMANS; LOUDNESS PERCEPTION; MUSIC; PITCH PERCEPTION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 84864432919     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep00521     Document Type: Article

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