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Nature 453, 988-989 (19 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/453988a; Published online 18 June 2008

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Damián Zanette1

  1. Damián Zanette is head of the Statistical and Interdisciplinary Physics Group of Centro Atómico Bariloche and professor of physics at Instituto Balseiro, Avenida Ezequiel Bustillo 9500, 8400 San Carlos de Bariloche, Río Negro, Argentina. He is a co-author of Emergence of Dynamical Order.

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Statistical analysis can inform the history of music, classification technologies, and our understanding of the act of composition itself, argues Damián Zanette.

Music history is riddled with debates on attribution. Did Andrea Luchesi compose many of the symphonies currently attributed to Mozart?

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