This project was closed. The calculator was migrated to http://contour.sampaio.me.
This is a software to calculate and plot musical contour relations operations. MusiContour can process contour related to parameters such as pitch, duration, dynamics and chord density. This software provides Contour Theories operations (see below).
MusiContour had two names before its current one: Goiaba (2007), a software developed to process musical contours, during Marcos da Silva Sampaio master's degree, and Villa-Lobos Contour module, a module of Villa-Lobos, and is now independent.
MusiContour is part of Marcos da Silva Sampaio PhD project about musical contour relations. More information about these project is available in its page, in portuguese.
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Friedmann, Michael L. 1985. A Methodology for the Discussion of Contour: its Application to Schoenberg's Music. Journal of Music Theory 29, no. 2: 223-248.
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Friedmann, Michael L. 1987. A Response: My Contour, Their Contour. Journal of Music Theory 31, no. 2: 268-274.
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Marvin, Elizabeth West. 1988. A generalized theory of musical contour: its application to melodic and rhythmic analysis of non-tonal music and its perceptual and pedagogical implications.
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Marvin, Elizabeth West, and Paul A Laprade. 1987. Relating Musical Contours: Extensions of a Theory for Contour. Journal of Music Theory 31, no. 2: 225-267.
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Morris, Robert D. 1993. New Directions in the Theory and Analysis of Musical Contour. Music Theory Spectrum xv: 205-228.
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Morris, Robert D. 1987. Composition with Pitch-classes: A Theory of Compositional Design. Yale University Press.
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Sampaio, Marcos da Silva. 2008. Em torno da romã: aplicações de operações de contornos na composição. Salvador, BA. Brasil.
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Sampaio, Marcos, and Pedro Kröger. 2009. Goiaba: a software to process musical contours. In Proceedings of the 12th Brazilian Symposium on Computer Music, 203-206. Recife, Brazil.
Keywords: Musical contour, contour in music, melodic contour, computational musicology, contour theory, contorno melódico.