How Can Mathematics Help in Identifying a Music Style

Year: 2011 Authors: Mária Kuková

Core claim

Chord occurrence patterns, analyzed by fuzzy clustering, can distinguish classicistic from romantic music styles reasonably well.

Topics

music style classification, fuzzy clustering, chord frequency analysis, classicistic and romantic music

Domains

fuzzy logic, cluster analysis, pattern recognition, ISODATA algorithm, music theory, composition analysis, historical musicology

Methods

vectorization of chord occurrences, ISODATA fuzzy clustering, prototype similarity comparison

Media

piano pieces, triads, seventh chords, MIDI-based harmonic analysis

Source status

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