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IJMSTA - Vol. 7 - Issue 2 - July 2025
ISSN 2612-2146
Pages: 17
Combining Three Graphs to Represent Music for Composition, Performance and Analysis
Authors: Myriam Desainte-Catherine, Josephine Calandra, Jean-Michael Celerier, Jean-Marc Chouvel
Categories: Journal
Abstract - This article focuses on musical representation for composition, performance and analysis. It highlights three graphs that are widely used for structuring musical pieces in the contexts of composition and performance. These graphs represent relationships linking the elements that make up a piece of music, whether temporal, functional or hierarchical. This article shows how they can be combined in a single graph. This approach is then illustrated in the context of composition and performance with the OSSIA score software and in the context of analysis with the MORFOS software. The ways these graphs are displayed and edited in the interfaces of those two software are compared and discussed.
Keywords: Musical pieces representation, Musical composition, Musical analysis, Performance, Combination of graphs
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