| One obvious place to look for scaling characteristics in music is in the set of durations of the notes
of a given composition. If examination reveals a power law relationship between a note's duration and the total number of such durations, then we can at least establish that a scaling phenomenon exists. |
| Here are two examples. |
| Here we plot the duration scalings of these examples. |
| Are these examples fractal? |
| Now add counterpoint. |
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