Variations
M. Giraud, K. Déguernel, E. Cambouroupoulos, Fragmentations with pitch, rhythm and parallelism constraints for variation matching , CMMR 2013, LNCS 8905, pp.298–312, 2014. 10.1007/978-3-319-12976-1_19
Composers commonly employ ornamentation and elaboration techniques to generate varied versions of an initial core melodic idea. This paper proposes a new way to assert the similarity of such variations with an extended fragmentation operation.