Overview of the Practical Music Macro Language

• NISHIMURA Satoshi

  The University of Aizu

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 音楽記述言語PMMLの概要

Abstract

This paper gives an overview of a novel music description language called the Practical Music Macro Language (PMML), which is intended for the computer-controlled performance of MIDI instruments. The PMML enables us concise description of basic musical elements such as notes, rests, chords, and concurrent voice parts. In addition, the PMML supports more advanced music-describing methods such as continuous parameter change based on free-form curves, structural representation of music with control structures and macros, algorithmic composition, event processing with a software module called an effector, and communication/synchronization among voice parts with message passing. A PMML interpreter which translates a PMML source code to a standard MIDI file is developed. The time for the translation is practical for repeating the cycles of editing, retranslating, and playing.

Journal

• IPSJ SIG Notes

  IPSJ SIG Notes 21 59-66, 1997-07-20

  Information Processing Society of Japan (IPSJ)

Details

• CRID: 1573668926989848320
• NII Article ID: 110002935432
• NII Book ID: AN10438388
• ISSN: 09196072
• Text Lang: ja
• Data Source:
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