We adapt a technique commonly used in the stylometric attribution of literary texts (based on a pseudo-distance between frequency-vectors of n-grams of letters) to the analysis of “unidimensio-nal” musical repertoires (rhythm-free melody without accompaniment). We successfully apply the method to a corpus of liturgical monodies of medieval origin (the so-called Gregorian Chant, in comparison with the Old Roman Chant). Our results give a first indication that automatic stylometric techniques can be fruitfully adopted to support the study of refined problems in musicology.
Unguendoli, F., Cristadoro, G., Beghelli, M. (2017). A quantitative method for the attribution of medieval liturgical monody. In Proceedings of the Fourth Italian Conference on Computational Linguistics (CLiC-it 2017). CEUR-WS.
A quantitative method for the attribution of medieval liturgical monody
Cristadoro, G;
2017
Abstract
We adapt a technique commonly used in the stylometric attribution of literary texts (based on a pseudo-distance between frequency-vectors of n-grams of letters) to the analysis of “unidimensio-nal” musical repertoires (rhythm-free melody without accompaniment). We successfully apply the method to a corpus of liturgical monodies of medieval origin (the so-called Gregorian Chant, in comparison with the Old Roman Chant). Our results give a first indication that automatic stylometric techniques can be fruitfully adopted to support the study of refined problems in musicology.
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