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Scoregram: Displaying Gross Timbre Information from a Score

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Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval (CMMR 2005)

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This paper introduces a visualization technique for music scores using a multi-timescale aggregation that offers at-a-glance information interpretable as the global timbre resulting from a normative performance of a score.

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Segnini, R., Sapp, C. (2006). Scoregram: Displaying Gross Timbre Information from a Score. In: Kronland-Martinet, R., Voinier, T., Ystad, S. (eds) Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. CMMR 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3902. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11751069_5

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