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<font face="Calibri">I can quote examples where this has been done,
which does not really answer the question, but might give clues.<br>
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- My former PhD student Anne-Emmanuelle Ceulemans has done an
extensive statistical analysis of the treatment of dissonance in
Josquin's Masses and convincingly (I believe) argued, partly on
the basis of her statistics, that Josquin's Mass "Une mousse de
Biscaye" probably is not by him. (Her paper is in Tijdschrift van
de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis
1998).<br>
- My former PhD student Bertrand Desbordes made an extended
statistical analysis of harmonic progressions in Mozart's
recitatives and convincingly claimed that his results allowed a
datation of the works, i.e. that if an unknown recitative was
found, he could chronologically locate it in Mozart's output.
Bertrand unfortunately did not publish his results, but his thesis
must be available in the Library of theses in the Sorbonne.<br>
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</font>Nicolas Meeùs<br>
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Le 1/12/2010 20:43, Dmitri Tymoczko a écrit :
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cite="mid:95E0684C-3A64-4B7D-BF73-D61153F4CA18@Princeton.EDU"
type="cite">Hi Everyone,
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I have a student -- a physics grad. student, actually, with a
strong music background -- who was interested in using statistical
analysis to do authorial identification, somewhat in the way
people have done with literary texts.
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Question: can anyone think of an interesting piece -- say from the
Renaissance onward -- where (1) authorship is uncertain and (2)
the composer *might* be someone very well known (so that there is
a substantial body of work to compare it to)?
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For instance, I know there is some disagreement about Magnus Es
Tu, Domine, which is often attributed to Josquin.
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In any case, I'd like this to be more than an academic exercise,
so it would be great to choose some piece where there's
substantial doubt.
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Thanks!
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DT
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Dmitri Tymoczko
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