Stylometry and Automatic Attribution of Medieval Liturgical Monodies
While automatic attribution of literary text as well as stylometry evaluation are nowadays well-established research areas, much less has been done in the field of musicology. Here we present the results of the implementation of an automatic stylometric attribution technique to a corpus of liturgica...
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| description | While automatic attribution of literary text as well as stylometry evaluation are nowadays well-established research areas, much less has been done in the field of musicology. Here we present the results of the implementation of an automatic stylometric attribution technique to a corpus of liturgical monodies of medieval origin (the so-called Gregorian Chant, Old Roman Chant and Ambrosian Chant). The ‘unidimensional’ nature of the musical repertoires investigated (rhythm-free melody without accompaniment) allows the adoption of a known method based on a pseudo-distance between frequency-vectors of n-gram of consecutive symbols. Finally, we show that some specific features of musicological interest inside the three liturgical families can be naturally extracted using a statistical analysis of n-gram distributions. The results presented show that a quantitative approach is well suited to support and accompany the investigation of refined problems in musicology. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-8dbf36ec6c394e93a8d6fa15ed40419c2025-08-20T01:55:06ZengAccademia University PressIJCoL2499-45532018-12-01429110510.4000/ijcol.518Stylometry and Automatic Attribution of Medieval Liturgical MonodiesFrancesco UnguendoliGiampaolo CristadoroMarco BeghelliWhile automatic attribution of literary text as well as stylometry evaluation are nowadays well-established research areas, much less has been done in the field of musicology. Here we present the results of the implementation of an automatic stylometric attribution technique to a corpus of liturgical monodies of medieval origin (the so-called Gregorian Chant, Old Roman Chant and Ambrosian Chant). The ‘unidimensional’ nature of the musical repertoires investigated (rhythm-free melody without accompaniment) allows the adoption of a known method based on a pseudo-distance between frequency-vectors of n-gram of consecutive symbols. Finally, we show that some specific features of musicological interest inside the three liturgical families can be naturally extracted using a statistical analysis of n-gram distributions. The results presented show that a quantitative approach is well suited to support and accompany the investigation of refined problems in musicology.https://journals.openedition.org/ijcol/518 |
| spellingShingle | Francesco Unguendoli Giampaolo Cristadoro Marco Beghelli Stylometry and Automatic Attribution of Medieval Liturgical Monodies IJCoL |
| title | Stylometry and Automatic Attribution of Medieval Liturgical Monodies |
| title_full | Stylometry and Automatic Attribution of Medieval Liturgical Monodies |
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| title_short | Stylometry and Automatic Attribution of Medieval Liturgical Monodies |
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