misleading pitches in cello Mozart + Beethoven string quartets about music21 HOT 2 CLOSED

In case you are curious how I noticed this, I include three plots of pitch frequency in Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven quartets. In Haydn, there is a similar "fall-off" of high-pitch notes in all quartet voices; in Mozart and Beethoven, there is a similar "fall-off" in the three upper voices, while the cello has a suspicious "bulge" in the "fall-off" portion.

(oops, I just noticed that the y-axis label should be "normalized log-probability", not "log-probability". oh well)

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I love the charts and the links you've posted -- it's been a known problem for some time. There is a similar and even bigger problem with French Horn bass clef (written an octave below where it "should" be given the treble clef transposition) which extends to rare excerpts for clarinet from Mozart's time in bass clef.

as Craig noted though, unfortunately we can't alter the CCARH encodings to fix the problem. I'm working on a project that should fix certain of these problems by mixing score data w/ midi data.

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