Statistical analysis of Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier

Abstract

Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier is the greatest work of Bach keyboard music, it contains 48 preludes and fugue, it is one of Bach’s representative works of music creation. This paper firstly inputs MIDI data of Bach’s Welltempered Clavier, and then constructs the analysis model of Bach’s Well-tempered Clavier. The experimental results show that the envelope of the number of occurrences of each musical note is in the shape of a double hump, indicating that the statistical number of musical notes played by the right hand or the left hand should be in the shape of a single camel peak in the musical range.