A Statistical Physics View of Pitch Fluctuations in the Classical Music from Bach to Chopin: Evidence for Scaling

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2013, Pages

  Liu, Lu ^a   Wei, Jianrong ^a   Zhang, Huishu ^a   Xin, Jianhong ^a   Huang, Jiping ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUTOCORRELATION; CLASSICAL MUSIC; CUMULATIVE DISTRIBUTION FUNCTION; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MUSIC; PITCH; PITCH FLUCTUATION; SOUND ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL PARAMETERS; TUNING CURVE;

HUMANS; MUSIC; PHYSICAL PHENOMENA; PITCH PERCEPTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84875452031     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0058710     Document Type: Article

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