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The RUBATO COMPOSER Music Software uses denotators as the universal data format. Denotators are objects (or points) in general spaces called forms. Denotators and forms constitute a general architecture of concepts, which itself is embedded in category theory. More precisely, the category in question is the category of set-valued presheaves over the modules. This embedding allows some new and important properties which are useful for modeling musical objects.
In this paper we discuss the consequences of using the limit and colimit constructions of category theory in the implementation of denotators in RUBATO COMPOSER.
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Milmeister, G. (2009). Category-Theoretic Consequences of Denotators as a Universal Data Format. In: Klouche, T., Noll, T. (eds) Mathematics and Computation in Music. MCM 2007. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-04579-0_3
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