Pattern grammars in formal representations of musical structures

Bernard Bel (1)

1 GRTC - Groupe Représentation et Traitement des Connaissances

This paper introduces several formal models of pattern representation in music. Polyvalent multimodal grammars describe partially overlapping sound events as found in polyphonic structures. Bol Processor grammars are characterisations of sequential events in terms of substring repetitions, homomorphisms, etc. Parsing techniques, stochastic production and recent developments of BP grammars are briefly described.

Mots clés: pattern languages; formal grammars; stochastic automata; music analysis

Domaines: Algorithme et structure de données [cs.DS]; Musique, musicologie et arts de la scène

Bernard Bel. Pattern grammars in formal representations of musical structures. 1989, pp.118-146. ⟨hal-00150245⟩