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AU - Borowiecki, Karol J.
AU - O'Hagan, John W.
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Historical patterns based on automatically extracted data: the case of classical composers
KW - Musik
KW - Musiksoziologie
KW - Musiker
KW - Datendokumentation
KW - Bundesrepublik Deutschland
KW - USA
KW - Komponist
KW - historische Analyse
KW - vergleichende Forschung
KW - 19. Jahrhundert
KW - 20. Jahrhundert
KW - Biographie
KW - Tod
KW - Migration
KW - Welt
KW - internationaler Vergleich
KW - Europa
KW - Produktivität
KW - Nordamerika
PY - 2012
N2 - Veröffentlichungsversion
N2 - begutachtet (peer reviewed)
N2 - "The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate the potential for generating interesting aggregate data on certain aspect of the lives of thousands of composers, and indeed other creative groups, from large on-line dictionaries and to be able to do so relatively quickly. A purpose-built java application that automatically extracts and processes information was developed to generate data on the birth location, occupations and importance (using word count methods) of over 12,000 composers over six centuries. Quantitative measures of the relative importance of different types of music and of the different music instruments over the centuries were also generated. Finally quantitative indicators of the importance of different cities over the different centuries in the lives of these composers are constructed. A range of interesting findings emerge in relation to all of these aspects of the lives of composers, which might provide insight and productive lines of enquiry for further work as to why certain composers were so successful in different historical periods." (author's abstract)
UR - http://slubdd.de/katalog?TN_libero_mab2
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