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Discriminate analysis has not been described as a procedure for musical style analysis, yet has great potential usefulness in authorship verification. Where bibliographic evidence cannot solve an authorship dispute, particularly among groups of pieces as similar as keyboard variations, discriminate analysis can demonstrate their degree of individuality, and can classify sample pieces into groups according to those groups’ resulting scores. The analysis was demonstrated using the collected Pavan variations of William Byrd, Giles Farnaby, Orlando Gibbons, Peter Philips, John Bull, and Thomas Morley. With the exception of Bull's, each composer's discriminate scores based on fourteen rhythmic and textural variables showed convincing internal stylistic consistency. Five disputed pieces were classified into the six composer groups using the fourteen variables, and an additional analysis using a subset of nine variables substantiated overall the original results. |
