Author: Roeder, John
Publication details: Music and Science. Seattle: Center for the Creation and Interdisciplinary Study of Music, University of Washington. Pp. 16-36.
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Logic-Programming Models of Music: A Semiotic Evaluation
Pitch and Rhythmic Dramaturgy in Verdi’s Lux æterna
Author: Roeder, John
Publication details: 19th-Century Music, Vol. 14, No. 2 (Autumn, 1990), pp. 169-185
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A Prolog Program for Music Segmentation
Author: Roeder, John
Publication details: Musicus1/2:165-176
Harmonic Implications of Schoenberg’s Observations of Atonal Voice Leading
Author: Roeder, John
Publication details: Journal of Music Theory 33, no. 1 (1989): 27-62.
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A General-Purpose Object System for Musical Graphics
Author: Roeder, John and Hamel, Keith
Publication details: Proceedings of the 1989 International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: Computer Music Association. Pp. 260 – 263.
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A Declarative Model of Atonal Analysis
Author: Roeder, John
Publication details: Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal 6, no. 1 (1988): 21-34.
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Abstract: Most computational models of musical understanding have focused on procedural aspects of analysis, suggesting techniques for parsing, comparing, and transforming various representations of a piece, or adapting discovery procedures of artificially intelligent (AI) inference systems, which plan and follow agendas and goals. Much contemporary AI research, however, also focuses on declarative aspects of knowledge, attempting to define data representations and relations that are commensurate with human cognition. Naturally, musical analysis has both procedural and declarative aspects: the declarative determines what the form of the analysis is, and the procedural determines how the analysis is obtained. However, a predominantly procedural analysis risks sacrificing the form of musical understanding to obtain efficiency or compatibility with a particular computer language. In this article I argue that, for a significant body of twentieth-century music, a declarative system models the structure of analytical understanding better than do existing procedural programs, and I present a functioning declarative system that infers complex musical structures from the elementary musical relations that it identifies.
Issues of Representation in the Analysis of Atonal Music
Author: Roeder, John
Publication details: Proceedings of the First Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Music, St. Paul, Minnesota. Menlo Park: American Association for Artificial Intelligence (1988): 138 – 147.
Abstract: A discussion of analytic knowledge representation (AKR) for atonal music. Argues that “the identity and arrangements of the elements of a score signify clearly the theoretical concepts … which influence their analytic representation.” Analytic knowledge representation is borne upon by musical information such as timbre and rubato, which are not represented in the traditional musical score.
Música y Teoria de Grupos Finitos: A Review
Author: Roeder, John
Publication details: Perspectives of New Music 25, no. 1/2 (1987): 638-41.
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