Meeting times to be arranged in CCARH Classroom (Braun Music Center 129).
Instructor:
Prof. Eleanor Selfridge-Field (esfield /at/ stanford.edu)
TA:
Rob Hamilton (rob /at/
ccrma.stanford.edu) TA Office Hours:
TBA
Survey of formats for and uses of musical information in musical notation, analysis, query, interchange, music history, and music theory. Covers topics useful for composition, performance, digital source study and editing, musical analysis of several kinds.
web-based notation (Guido)
visual representations of music and musical features
methods of organization of musical data
optical music recognition (SharpEye)
data resources and copyright issues related to virtual distribution
musical data interchange (MusicXML)
notation software
Finale
Sibelius
SCORE
analysis software: Humdrum
Special topics and speakers are introduced as time permits. The emphasis is on understanding the purposes, strengths, and weaknesses of different methods of representing music in computer applications.
Prerequisite:
Ability to read music
One year of music theory
Units: 1-4
Course content (previous years):
Links to miscellaneous sites illustrating different kinds of representation schemes
Recommended reading: Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes (1997)