I don't know if it's the only study of its kind, but I think the point of studying anything is not always the novelty factor of it, but rather making what we "a

I don't know if it's the only study of its kind, but I think the point of studying anything is not always the novelty factor of it, but rather making what we "already knew" more explicit and concrete. At least in math when a "known-to-be-true" conjecture is proven, we don't say it isn't news :) Maybe it's different in science and music.