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The "Benfordness" of Bach Music

2023; Claremont Colleges Library; Volume: 13; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.5642/jhummath.sgfv8169

2159-8118

Chadrack Bantange, Darby Burgett, Luke Haws, Sybil Prince Nelson,

Benford’s Law and Fraud Detection

In this paper we analyze the distribution of musical note frequencies in Hertz to see whether they follow the logarithmic Benford distribution. Our results show that the music of Johann Sebastian Bach and Johann Christian Bach is Benford distributed while the computer-generated music is not. We also find that computer-generated music is statistically less Benford distributed than human- composed music.