Modeling Music as Synchronized Time Series: Application to Music Score Collections

We apply the model to collections of music scores. We describe a system, based on an extension of XQuery with our algebra, that provides search, reorganization, and extraction functionalities on top of large collections of XML-encoded digital scores. Beyond its application to music objects, our work shows how one can rely on a structured content embedded in a complex XML encoding to develop robust collection management tools with minimal implementation effort.