Emergence of Benford's Law in Music
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math.PR
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benforddigitsfoundanalyzedbachbeethovenclassicalcomposed
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We analyzed a large selection of classical musical pieces composed by Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Schubert and Tchaikovsky, and found a surprising connection with mathematics. For each composer, we extracted the time intervals each note was played in each piece and found that the corresponding data sets are Benford distributed. Remarkably, the logarithmic distribution is present not only for the leading digits, but also for all digits.
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