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Composition tools integration with a music database system

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Effective design and management tool integration within a design support environment is a problem common to all design applications, but can be acute in some artistic applications. Reasons are explained through analysis of tools integration problems encountered in music composition. The problems identified stem from the experimental and volatile nature of the tools, a predominance of “foreign” and “legacy” tools, and the ambiguous roles of tools. Solutions described are refinements of those used in existing tools frameworks, i.e. encapsulation, environment simulation, and inter-environment binding, and are implemented for a music composition system centred on an object-oriented design database.

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  1. University of Bradford, Bradford, UK

    Barry Eaglestone

  2. Sound Information Technology Research Group (SITRG), UK

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Eaglestone, B. (1995). Composition tools integration with a music database system. In: Revell, N., Tjoa, A.M. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 978. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0049143

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