About Musical rhythm spectra from Bach to Joplin obey a 1/f power law
Musical rhythm spectra from Bach to Joplin obey a 1/f power law- Across 16 subgenres and 40 composers, researchers Daniel Levitin, Parag Chordia, and Vinod Menonc found that an overwhelming majority of rhythms sampled obeyed a 1/f^β power law with β ranging from ~0.5 to 1.
