Music 254/CS 275b Spring 2015 Syllabus

Music 254/CS 275b "Music Query, Analysis, and Style Simulation"
Stanford University (Spring 2015).

This is an old syllabus. See The most recent version .

This music information retrieval course builds on the foundation of Music 253/CS 275A. Using an open-source analysis platform (such as the Humdrum Toolkit (unix), Humdrum Extras (C++), or Music21 (Python), or your preferred programming language/environment) students plan and design their own applications.

The first four weeks cover basic areas of music analysis and retrieval and introduce basic principles of using the Humdrum Toolkit. Students may be assigned individual reading assignments pertinent to their research topic areas. The remaining six weeks are spent on individual project development, with weekly reports and discussions. Extensive help is available in the lab during hours allotted to class time. Students give verbal and written reports on their research at the end of the quarter. Some projects may be appropriate for continuation in independent-study modules.

Meeting times:		Mondays & Wednesdays 1:15–3:05
Location:		Braun Music Building, room 128 (or entry also from room 129)
Instructors:		Eleanor Selfridge-Field (esfield@stanford.edu) Craig Stuart Sapp (craig@ccrma.stanford.edu)
Office Hours:		3:05–4:05 Wednesdays and by appointment.
Credits:		2–4
Grading:		25% class participation, 75% project Project proposal: 3 pages, due Mon. 14 April 2014 Project presentation, 20–30 minutes, Wed. 3 June 2015. Project writeup draft: 5+ pages, Wed. 3 June 2014 Project writeup: 10–20 pages, Thurs. 11 June 2015
Website:		music254.stanford.edu wiki.ccarh.org/wiki/Music 254 Overview of topics presented in Music 254.
Prerequisites:		Completion of Music 253/CS 275b, or demonstrated ability to use notation and sound software and associated requirements.
Textbook:		E. Selfridge-Field, ed., Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes (MIT Press, 1997). Available online by permission of the publisher.

Syllabus

Go to week: Harmony 1 | Melody 2 | Rhythm 3 | Harmony 4 | RegEx 5 | Programming 6 | 7 | 8

See also Music 253/CS 275a Syllabus

Week	Dates	Topics
1	30 March, 1 Apr 2015	Introduction (PDF slides) Harmony I 1. Symbolic Music Analysis (Introduction) (PDF slides) Harmony Tools I in Humdrum (PDF slides) Harmony tools: hint: Harmonic intervals. tntype: twelve-tone chord prototypes. key: Krumhansl-Schmuckler key-finding algorithm. keycor: generalization of key command. sonority: triadic chord descriptions of sonorities. Support tools: assemble: merge separate spines into single data stream. serialize: convert Humdrum data into single spine. humcat : concatenate multiple scores together (download data from web). ridx: remove various components of Humdrum file structure ditto: resolve meaning of null tokens. humsplit: split segmented Humdrum file streams into separate files. Unix tools: command line list of command-line programs sort: sort lines of data alphabetically or numerically. uniq: Remove/count successively repeated lines of text. Pitchmix and Markov analysis of composite sonorities
2	6 & 8 Apr 2015	Melody 2a. Melodic Search: Strategies and Formats (PDF slides) 2b. Melodic Similarity: Cognitive and Perceptual Dimensions (PDF slides) Melody Tools in Humdrum (PDF slides) melody tools: mint: Melodic intervals scaletype Simple scale type categorizer tindex: Thema indexer. themax: Thema search. theloc: Thema localizer. context: melodic n-grams prange: Pitch range tool. graphical notation: hum2muse/muse2ps: print Humdrum files with MuseData printing system. hum2abc/ abcm2ps: print Humdrum files with ABC+ printing system. ms/mup: print Humdrum files with Mup printing system. hum2xml: convert Humdrum files into MusicXML for display in: MuseScore Noteflight or via musicxml2ly in lilypond. support tools: kern: remove rhythms from note data. myank Yank measures from a full score. extract: extract spines from Humdrum file. extractx: Humdrum Extras version of extract hgrep: Humdrum-aware greep. autostem: automatic stemming of notes. unix: head: show only starting lines of text. grep: search text for generalized regular expressions. egrep: enhanced grep (adds additional wildcards). sed: Stream editor (search and replace). graphics (unix): pstopnm: a converter from PostScript to bitmaps. convert: Imagemagick tool for manipulating images. ps2pdf: convert PostScript into PDF files.
3	13 Apr 2015	Style/Rhythm 3a. Similarity: Musical Dimensions 3b. Aspects of Meter and Rhythm Rhythm Tools in Humdrum (PDF slides) timebase: create uniform duration for each Humdrum file data line. beat: label metric beats in Humdrum file. gettime: calculate performance time in seconds (according to tempo markings). thrux: expand repeats to performance sequence minrhy: identify minimum integral rhythmic unit in score assemble: merge parts into a single score partjoin: automation script to merge parts into a single score (preserves grace notes, uses minrhy and timebase) ditto/dittox: resolve null tokens hgrep: search for patterns in Humdrum file data.
3	15 Apr 2015	Data/Data entry Data/Data entry in Humdrum (PDF slides) KernScores: digital library of scores in the **kern format [1] introduction to KernScores [2] shortcuts to data in KernScores [3] browse collections in KernScores [4]: Josquin Research Project: digital library of early Renaissance polyphony xml2hum: MusicXML to Humdrum converter mid2hum: MIDI to Humdrum converter (works in many cases, but better to convert MIDI first to MusicXML then import).
4	20 Apr 2015	Harmony II 4a. Harmonic Models (1) 4b. Harmonic Models (2) Harmony II Key analysis (PDF slides) Key-cycles: Hummel Op. 67 preludes Chopin Op. 28 preludes J.S. Bach Well-Tempered Clavier keycor: harmonic structure plots. mkeyscape: harmonic structure plots. Beethoven piano sonata keyscapes Mozart piano sonata keyscapes Lots of keyscapes transpose: Transpose score to specific key or by interval.
4	22 Apr 2015	Humdrum & MIDI Humdrum to MIDI (PDF slides)
5	27 Apr 2015	Regular Expressions Regular Expressions (PDF slides)
5	29 April 2015	5a. From Emmy to Emily Howell: The Work of David Cope
6	4 May 2015	Programming for Humdrum files Humdrum Extras — C++ library for processing Humdrum files music21 — Python environment which reads Humdrum files
6	6 May 2015	Inner metric analysis Inner Metric Analysis (PDF slides) Sonority distributions by bass-line scale degrees Corelli & Rule-of-the-octave data selection (PDF slides)
7	11 May 2015	Dice Mozart Dice Game
7	13 May 2015	Musical Style Quantitative Analysis of Musical Style
8	18 May 2015	Project development No class meeting
8	20 May 2015	Project development No class meeting
9	28 May 2014	Counterpoint Generative approaches to counterpoint MEI MEI (Music Encoding Initiative) Release 2.0
6	June 2 2015
8	June 4 2015	Project presentations

General Policies and University Rules

General policies and university rules:

1. Delivery times:
   1. Assignments: by the start of the class for which they are due.
   2. Final exam: by 11 p.m. of the assigned date.
2. Honor code: We will act and expect you to act according to the Stanford Honor Code.
3. Students with disabilities: Students who may need an academic accommodation based on the impact of a disability must initiate the request with the Student Disability Resource Center (SDRC) located within the Office of Accessible Education (OAE). SDRC staff will evaluate the request with required documentation, recommend reasonable accommodations, and prepare an Accommodation Letter for faculty dated in the current quarter in which the request is being made. Students should contact the SDRC as soon as possible since timely notice is needed to coordinate accommdations. The OAE is located at 563 Salvatierra Walk (phone 723-1066).