US Teen: Mozart's Music Least Predictable — SkimNews
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- Linus Chen-Plotkin, a US student, analyzed music by four canonical composers in search of patterns that set their work apart
- The analysis found Mozart's music moves in the least predictable way among the four composers studied
- The research tackles a question that has occupied musical thinkers for centuries about what makes one composer's music more distinctive than another's
Why it matters: A teenager applying quantitative analysis to classical music offers a rare data-driven answer to a long-standing musicological question, giving scholars a potential new tool for measuring what makes canonical works distinctive.
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