music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology and Symbolic Music Data
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Cuthbert_Ariza_ISMIR_2010.pdf
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Author(s)
Cuthbert, Michael Scott
Ariza, Christopher T.
Date Issued
August 2010
Journal
Proceedings of the 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010)
Publisher
International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Citation
Cuthbert, Michael Scott and Christopher Ariza. "music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology and Symbolic Music Data." in J. Stephen Downie and Remco C. Veltkamp (Eds.). 11th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2010), August 9-13, 2010, Utrecht, Netherlands. pp. 637-642.
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Abstract
Music21 is an object-oriented toolkit for analyzing, searching, and transforming music in symbolic (score- based) forms. The modular approach of the project allows musicians and researchers to write simple scripts rapidly and reuse them in other projects. The toolkit aims to provide powerful software tools integrated with sophisticated musical knowledge to both musicians with little programming experience (especially musicologists) and to programmers with only modest music theory skills. This paper introduces the music21 system, demonstrating how to use it and the types of problems it is well suited toward advancing. We include numerous examples of its power and flexibility, including demonstrations of graphing data and generating annotated musical scores.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Music and Theater Arts Section
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http://ismir2010.ismir.net/proceedings/ismir2010-108.pdf
