The "Rhythmic Fingerprint": An Extension of the nPVI to Quantify Rhythmic Influence

Authors

  • Joseph R Daniele University of California, Berkeley

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i2.5426

Keywords:

music rhythm, quantitative musicology, nPVI, historical trends, empirical

Abstract

This article is in response to Leigh VanHandel's "The War of the Romantics: An Alternate Hypothesis Using nPVI for the Quantitative Anthropology of Music." (2016) I address comments made in VanHandel's response and propose a new tool, the "rhythmic fingerprint," to move away from representing a composer as a single value (e.g. mean nPVI) and more accurately quantify and classify rhythmic influence within a composer's lifetime.

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Published

2017-01-10

How to Cite

Daniele, J. R. (2017). The "Rhythmic Fingerprint": An Extension of the nPVI to Quantify Rhythmic Influence. Empirical Musicology Review, 11(2), 243–260. https://doi.org/10.18061/emr.v11i2.5426