This repository contains material related to Music Note Ontology, as described in the article:
Poltronieri, A., & Gangemi, A. (2021). The Music Note Ontology. In Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2021), Online, October 24, 2021..
The Music Note Ontology models a musical note both as a constituent element of the score, and as a musical object, i.e. as a realisation of the event represented by a score or symbolic notation. To do this, the proposed ontology represents both the elements and the typical hierarchies of a score, describing all its attributes. In addition, the ontology models the realisation of a note, describing its physical characteristics in a given performance.
The work is a refinement of the preliminary ontology proposed here.
Ontology was modeled following the principles of Ontology Design Patterns and aims at responding at the following competency questions:
| Id | Competency Question |
|---|---|
| CQ1 | what is the name of a note? |
| CQ2 | what part of the score does a note belong to? |
| CQ3 | what are the dynamic indications referring to a note in the score? |
| CQ4 | what is the fundamental frequency of a note? |
| CQ5 | what are the different frequencies that make up the spectrum of a note? |
| CQ6 | what is the duration in seconds of a note, in a given performance? |
| CQ7 | how is the envelope of a note shaped? |
| CQ8 | what is the sound intensity of the notes played by a specific voice? |
| CQ9 | what is the MIDI pitch of a musical object having a specific frequency? |
| CQ10 | what is the decay time of the execution of a note? |
| CQ11 | which are the accidental of the notes present in a score part? |
| CQ12 | what is the duration in seconds of the notes played by a specific instrument? |
| CQ13 | what is the MIDI velocity of a played note in a given performance? |
The Ontology is designed as the union of three different Ontology Design Patterns, namely:
The hierarchy (i.e. the mereological structure) of a music score is described by the Score Part Pattern.
The Music Note Pattern models the symbolic note (as represented in a score or in most of symbolic representation systems) and its attributes. Moreover, this ODP aims to abstract over different music representation systems. This means that it is possible to represent with this pattern music that was originally encoded in other formats. To do so, the pattern proposed describes each symbolic notes both by means of the standard music score notation and by using the MIDI reference for each of the notes’s attributes.
For each of the Competency questions listed abouve we provide the relative SPARQL queries. All the SPAQRL queries are available in the folder SPARQL_queries
@inproceedings{poltronieri2021musicnoteontology,
title={The Music Note Ontology},
author={Poltronieri, Andrea and Gangemi, Aldo},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th Workshop on Ontology Design and Patterns (WOP 2021), Online, October 24, 2021.},
journal={CEUR-WS},
editor={Hammar, Karl and Shimizu, Cogan and Küçük McGinty, Hande and Asprino, Luigi and Carriero, Valentina Anita},
year={2021},
month={11}
}
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