The Role of Orchestration in Shaping Musical Form
Theory and Practice of a Methodological Proposal and Its Computational Implementation
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https://doi.org/10.4312/mz.58.2.121-153Keywords:
musical analysis, orchestration, musical texture, computational musicology, audio analysisAbstract
We introduce a method for computer-assisted analysis of orchestration. We also look into the role that texture and orchestration have in structuring musical form. The method comprises a numerical representation, a hierarchy of ‘textural situations’ and measures for heterogeneity, diversity and complexity of orchestral-textural configurations.
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