Music theorists tend to use strings of capital letters as variables, which (at least to my non-programmer eye) gives the literature a computer-programming look.
For example, take this classic book by David Lewin, full of variables and operators with names like EQUIV, SAMETYPE, IFUNC, INJ, and so on.
Music theorists tend to use strings of capital letters as variables, which (at least to my non-programmer eye) gives the literature a computer-programming look.
For example, take this classic book by David Lewin, full of variables and operators with names like EQUIV, SAMETYPE, IFUNC, INJ, and so on.