Data Models of German Lute Tablature With TScore

TL;DR

This paper introduces TScore, a formalism and software tool for modeling time-related musical data, demonstrated through its application to German lute tablature notation, highlighting its adaptability and potential for further development.

Contribution

The paper presents TScore, a novel formalism and implementation for modeling diverse time-related musical data, applied here to German lute tablature notation.

Findings

TScore effectively models German lute tablature notation.

The architecture allows easy adaptation and extension.

Proof of concept demonstrates feasibility.

Abstract

TScore is both an abstract formalism and its computer implementation to construct models of arbitrary kinds of time-related data. It is a research project about the semantics of musical notation, applying the method of computer-aided re-modelling to diverse formalisms and semantics of time-related data. Here we present the application to German tablature notation. While the current implemention is merely a proof of concept, the lean architecture of TScore allows easy adaptation and extension.