A Database Design for Musical Information

Summary: General-purpose database design for musical information; extends ER with hierarchical ordering to model musical structure. Schema for musical notation; supports production, editing, performance, and analysis, using defined notation, no AI planning. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: h4efd377539dd63ed
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1987
Pagerank: 4.9793485e-05
Overall Rank: 13,470 | 9.44%
DOI: 10.1145/38713.38762

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Authors

1. W Bradley Rubenstein (Sun Microsystems; University of California Berkeley)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{rubenstein_sigmod87,
        title = {{A Database Design for Musical Information}},
        author = {Rubenstein, W Bradley},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '87},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/38713.38762},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/38713.38762},
        year = {1987}
}

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Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
10	Extending the Data Base Relational Model to Capture More Meaning	1979	SIGMOD	0.00075944947
96	The Database Language GEM	1983	SIGMOD	0.00034286345
116	Direct Spatial Search on Pictorial Databases Using Packed R-trees	1985	SIGMOD	0.00031645463
260	Statistical Databases: Characteristics, Problems, and Some Solutions	1982	VLDB	0.00022880477
1,412	Characteristics of Scientific Databases	1984	VLDB	0.000107398
2,859	Temporal Data Management	1986	VLDB	7.9338914e-05
2,976	An Implementation of GEM — supporting a semantic data model on a relational back-end.	1984	SIGMOD	7.7903145e-05
4,512	Extended Semantics for Generalization Hierarchies	1978	SIGMOD	6.5681076e-05

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