INScore expressions to compose symbolic scores

Abstract : INScore is an environment for the design of augmented interactive music scores turned to non-conventional use of music notation. The environment allows arbitrary graphic resources to be used and composed for the music representation. It supports symbolic music notation, described us- ing Guido Music Notation or MusicXML formats. The environment has been extended to provided score level com- position using a set of operators that consistently take scores as arguments to compute new scores as output. INScore API supports now score expressions both at OSC and at scripting levels. The work is based on a previous research that solved the issues of the notation consistency across scores composition. This paper focuses on the language level and explains the different strategies to evaluate score expressions.