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http://dx.doi.org/10.5351/CKSS.2008.15.2.273

Circular Statistics in Musicology

Lee, Jeong-Ran (Department of Statistics, Seoul National University)
Oh, Hee-Seok (Department of Statistics, Seoul National University)

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Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods / v.15, no.2, 2008 , pp. 273-282 More about this Journal

Abstract

An essential aspect of music is structure. Beran (2004) introduced a method of comparing piano plays via circular statistics based on the fact that there is circular structure in music. We expand the application of this method to a pair of two pop songs and discuss the possibility of applying it to detecting musical plagiarism. Circular statistics provides an objective view point comparing the musical works.

Keywords

Circular statistics; statistics in musicology;

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Reference

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