Towards a Semantic Web Based Model for the Tonal System in Standard IEEE 1599

Abstract

XML based representations of music, such as the standard IEEE 1599, usually describe in detail all features of music as found in scores and/or synchronizes different music layers to allow navigation. The enhancement proposed here adds to this kind of definitions musicological concepts, allowing the future realization of inferences for an analytical understanding of a piece of tonal music. To this aim, an ontology about tonal music is defined and two initial prototypes, concerning the application of the semantic web technology, have been developed. The prototypes here describe in detail tonal music element formalizations and an example of the application of an inference rule about intervals.