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About Styles

A style is a collection of melodic, rhythmic, and instrumental information that can be combined dynamically to produce a piece of music.

Unlike a MIDI-based segment, a style-based segment is not based on a fixed score. Variability comes from the following factors:

The following figure shows the structure of a simple style.

Style structure

The style contains the following elements:


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