Music Representation Issues, Techniques, and Systems

Roger B. Dannenberg
School of Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213 USA
dannenberg@cs.cmu.edu

• Introduction
• Levels of Representation
• Hierarchy and Structure
• Extensibility
• Pitch
• Tempo, Beat, Duration, and Time
• Timbre
• Music Notation
• Continuous and Discrete Data
• Declarative and Procedural Representations
• Resources, Instances, and Streams
• Protocols and Coding
• Other Issues
• Further Information
• Conclusion
• Acknowledgments
• References

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