An Introduction to Aspect-Oriented Music Representation

Patrick Hill, Simon Holland, Robin Laney
2007 Computer Music Journal  
The composition of music in many idioms involves the exploitation of recurrent, recombinant musical fragments. Any given fragment may, as a consequence, appear in arbitrarily many structures, in its original or transformed state. Such a fragment is said to crosscut the musical structure, in the sense that the modification of such a fragment implies that revisions should be made to related structures.
doi:10.1162/comj.2007.31.4.47 fatcat:cj2nzbambjbnvpgugndkleeuy4