Guerino Mazzola has done a lot of work in this area (using category theory to describe music and performance). He has a couple of textbooks, many papers, and most recently this article:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-642-39357-0_2 Warning: it's fairly abstract! On a more practical level, I wanted to mention that in Euterpea a user can define a notion of a "player" that interprets note and phrase attributes in a "player dependent" manner. For example, one could define a piano player and a violin player that each interpret legato, crescendo, trills, and so on, in different ways. One of the coolest uses of this idea is the definition of a "jazz player" that interprets a piece of music in a "swing" style (e.g. interpreting a pair of eighth notes as a triplet of sixteenth notes, etc.). You can have as many players in a composition as you like. All of this is described in Chapter 8 of http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/?post_type=publication&p=112. Best, -Paul Paul Hudak Professor of Computer Science Yale University, PO Box 208285 New Haven, CT 06520-8285, 203-432-1235 -----Original Message----- From: Evan Laforge [mailto:qdun...@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, December 19, 2013 7:51 PM To: haskell-art@lurk.org Subject: Re: [haskell-art] abstract music from csound et.al. (Was: ANN - csound-expression-3.1.0) On Wed, Dec 18, 2013 at 8:52 PM, Rohan Drape <rohan.dr...@gmail.com> wrote: > perhaps see: > > Kirke, A. and Miranda, E. (Eds.) "Guide to Computing for Expressive > Music Performance", Springer, 2013 Indeed, more than I thought, and there's a whole textbook on it! Even with just google books snippets there are references to various programs I've never heard of, e.g. www.rubato.org. I still haven't figured out exactly what it does, and of course there's no actual music, but the "documentation" (thesis) starts right off with category theory, so it must be great :) Thanks for the reference! _______________________________________________ haskell-art mailing list haskell-art@lurk.org http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art _______________________________________________ haskell-art mailing list haskell-art@lurk.org http://lists.lurk.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-art
