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Beran Statistics - Musicology - 2004
Beran Statistics - Musicology - 2004
Beran Statistics - Musicology - 2004
ARGERICH
ARRAU
ASKENAZE
BRENDEL
-40
BUNIN
CAPOVA
CORTOT1
CORTOT2
CORTOT3
CURZON
DAVIES
-60
DEMUS
log(tempo)
ESCHENBACH
GIANOLI
HOROWITZ1
HOROWITZ2
HOROWITZ3
KATSARIS
-80
KLIEN
KRUST
KUBALEK
MOISEIWITSCH
NEY
NOVAES
-100
ORTIZ
SCHNABEL
SHELLEY
ZAK
0 10 20 30
onset time
sample considered here, pianists of the “modern era” tend to make a much
′′
stronger distinction between A and A in terms of slow tempi. The only
exceptions (outliers in the left boxplot) are Moiseiwitsch and Horowitz’
first performance and Ashkenazy (outlier in the right boxplot). The com-
parsion of skewness and curtosis in Figures 2.4g and h also indicates that
“modern” pianists seem to prefer occasional extreme ritardandi. The only
exception in the “early 20th century group” is Artur Schnabel, with an
extreme skewness of −2.47 and a kurtosis of 7.04.
Direct comparisons of tempo distributions are shown in Figures 2.5a