A database design for musical information

  • Authors:
  • W. Bradley Rubenstein

  • Affiliations:
  • Univ. of California, Berkeley

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '87 Proceedings of the 1987 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

As part of our research into a general purpose data management system for musical information, a major focus has been the development of tools to support a data model for music. This paper first outlines the various types of information that fall under the purview of our proposed data manager. We consider extensions to the entity-relationship data model to implement the notion of hierarchical ordering, commonly found in musical data. We then present examples from our schema for representing musical notation in a database, taking advantage of these extensions.