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AccompaNet
Chatzimichail C, Hatjimihail AT. Accompanet: a software tool for exploring accompaniment instruments frequencies, networks and configurations. Ver. 1.0.0. Hellenic Complex Systems Laboratory; 2026.
Software Synopsis
AccompaNet is an interactive Wolfram Language notebook for analysing musical accompaniment through category frequencies, weighted co-occurrence networks and complete accompaniment configurations. It accepts user-defined configuration lists and recording frequencies, preserving instrument multiplicities. Seventeen descriptive measures summarize prevalence, connectivity and network structure through interactive graphs, plots and ranked tables. Configuration queries distinguish observed combinations from those suggested only by pairwise links. Fractional weighting accounts for configuration size, while sensitivity analyses examine how analytical choices affect the results. AccompaNet supports reproducible descriptive analysis and musicological hypothesis generation. Its findings remain bounded by the source coding: frequent co-occurrence does not establish preference, and an unobserved combination does not establish incompatibility or deliberate avoidance.
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Software Requirements
Operating systems: Microsoft Windows, Linux, Apple macOS and iOS
Programming language: Wolfram Language
Source file format: Wolfram Notebook
Other software requirements: Wolfram Player (freely available) or Wolfram Mathematica
Recommended system: Intel Core i9 or equivalent CPU and 4 GB+ of RAM
Project Status
Active
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