Music 253/CS 275a Winter 2020 Syllabus

Music 253/CS 275a "Symbolic Musical Information"
Stanford University (Winter 2021).

This music-information introduction surveys symbolic frameworks and methods for a wide range of applications. Areas covered include advanced notation systems, optical music recognition, data conversion and synchronization, and the internal structure of data files. The course is preparatory for Music 254/CS 275B (Computational Musical Analysis), which focuses on projects requiring a working knowledge of notation and familiarity with sound software.

Meeting times:		Tuesday & Thursdays 12:30–1:50
Virtual Location (2021):		Enrolled students will receive Zoom invitation
Customary Location:		Braun Music Building, Rooms 131, 128 (lab entry from Room 129)
Instructors:		Eleanor Selfridge-Field (esfield@stanford.edu) Craig Stuart Sapp (craig@ccrma.stanford.edu)
Office Hours:		By appointment.
Credits:		2–4
Grading:		Four-credits: class attendance: 25%; weekly assignments: 50%; take-home final essay: 25%. Three-credit/no final essay: class attendance: 33%; weekly assignments: 67%. Two-credit/no final essay: choices negotiable (homework assignments selected in consultation with instructors).
Website:		music253.stanford.edu: Overview of individual topics presented in Music 253, and syllabus.
Prerequisites:		Ability to read standard music notation. Knowledge of central concepts of tonal music theory (see Tutorial).
Textbook:		E. Selfridge-Field, ed., Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes (MIT Press, 1997). Available online by permission of the publisher.
Special circumstances (Winter 2021) :		Topics may be adjusted to accommodate changing circumstances. We are not planning on a take-home final, but 4-credit students may be required to do other work earlier in the quarter. This will be negotiated early in the quarter.

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Syllabus

See also Music 254/CS 275b Syllabus

Go to week: 1 | 2 | MIDI 3 | 4 | SCORE 5 | 6 | MuseData 7 | XML 8 | Humdrum 9 | 10

Week 1

Week	Dates	Topics
1	12 Jan 2021	Overview of music representation and course resources Lecture 01A: Musical Information or PDF version or Video version Lecture C1a: Music representation Demo: Malinowski's Music Animation Machine Assignment #1: Design your own music representation system (due in one week) Informal Course Participation Survey
1	14 Jan 2021	Lecture 01B: Applying Musical Information Lecture C1b: Rosetta stone of digital music representations (see also Rosetta Stone of Musical Data Codes wikipage) Lab #1: Guido Music Notation Assignment #2: Finish Guido lab exercises at home (due in one week)

Week 2

Week	Dates	Topics
2	19 Jan 2021	Input methods: textual input Lecture 02A: Input Methods for Musical Notation. Also here Lab #2a: Computer keyboard Input methods in MuseScore
2	21 Jan 2021	Input methods: MIDI keyboard input Lecture 2B: Sound-MIDI Introduction 2020 Lab #2b: MIDI keyboard Input methods in MuseScore Lab #2c: Scores and Data Export in MuseScore Assignment #3: Finish Lab 2 exercises (due in one week)

Week 3

Week	Dates	Topics
3	26 Jan 2021	Input methods: OMR and Data Interchange Lecture 03A: Optical Music Recognition 2018.pdf Lecture C2: Introduction to XML Lab #3: Optical music recognition with SharpEye Assignment #4: SharpEye to MuseScore/Noteflight/Verovio Humdrum Viewer (Due in one week)
3	28 Jan 2021	MIDI Protocol Lecture 03B: From Sound to Input and Output Lecture C3a: MIDI protocol (extra: Hexadecimal numbers) Topic: MIDI roadmap of the byte Topic: MIDI bytes/messages (cinmidi) Topic: MIDI messages

Week 4

Week	Dates	Topics
4	2 Feb 2021	General MIDI/Standard MIDI Files Lecture C3b: Standard Midi Files Topic: Outline of the Standard MIDI File structure Topic: Variable length values Lecture 04A: MIDI Extensions (1) or PDF version Assignment #5a: MIDI file parsing homework (Due in one week)
4	4 Feb 2021	MIDI Extensions/Wrap-up Lecture 04B: MIDI Extensions (1) Lecture 04BB: (MIDI Extensions (2)) Lecture/Demo: Creating MIDI files by hand binasc tool for creating MIDI files in a text editor Topic: General MIDI instruments (plus percussion key numbers on channel 10) Topic: General MIDI continuous controllers Assignment #5b: MIDI file creation (due in one week)

Week 5

Week	Dates	Topics
5	9 Feb 2021	MIDI Conclusion MIDI notes (MIDI Plus and C++ parser & Guitar TAB to MIDI conversion) SCORE user input code Lecture 05A: Introduction to SCORE or here Lab: SCORE user input (slides) SCORE 5-Stage Input Reference
5	11 Feb 2021	SCORE music editor Lecture 05B. Repertories with Special Needs or here Lab: Input exercises done on paper in previous session SCORE survival guide

Week 6

Week	Dates	Topics
6	16 Feb 2021	SCORE simple examples Lecture 06A. Extremes within CMN or here Lab: Input slightly harder SCORE examples List of useful SCORE commands Homework #6: Finish SCORE user input 2, due 18 Feb 2020
6	18 Feb 2021	Piano rolls as musical data SUPRA: Digitzing Stanford University's Piano Roll Archive Virtual Tour of the Archive of Recorded Sound and the Dennis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls.

Week 7

Week	Dates	Topics
7	23 Feb 2021	Archiving musical data Lecture 07A. Codes for Archiving, interchange, and Analysis: EsAC and Plaine & Easie SCORE parameters 2 SCORE parameters Lecture 07B. MuseData: A Comprehensive Approach to Building Encoded Repertories Lecture: SCORE parameters Score parameter examples: notes, slurs/ties (note and slur parameter sheets) Lab/Homework: Hard SCORE exercises, due next Tuesday)
7	25 Feb 2021	MuseData Lecture 07B. Codes for Archiving and Repurposing: MuseData Lecture 07C. Musedata and Beethoven string quartets Beethoven String Quartets MuseData files for the quartets muse2ps for printing the MuseData files

Week 8

Week	Dates	Topics
8	2 Mar 2021	MusicXML Lecture 08A. Markup Languages for Music: MusicXML and MEIand here Lecture: MusicXML and musical parameters
8	4 Mar 2021	Transposition via Base-40 Lecture 08b. Base-40 Arithmetic for Music Appsand here MEI Lecture: Introduction to MEI 30 Short MEI encoding examples XML homework (due next Thursday)

Week 9

Week	Dates	Topics
9	9 Mar 2021	Humdrum file format Lecture 09A. Introduction to Humdrum or here Lecture: Humdrum file format Introduction to **kern music encoding Verovio Humdrum Viewer (2019 IAML (Krakow, Poland) workshop slides for VHV) Homework: Encode examples in Humdrum using VHV editor (due this Thursday).
9	11 Mar 2020	Humdrum Analysis 1 Lecture 09B. Uses of Humdrum or here Lab: Humdrum Lab Humdrum homework (due next Thursday)

Week 10

Week	Dates	Topics
10	16 Mar 2021	Music as Intellectual Property Lecture 10A. Basic Concepts in Music Copyright and here Lecture 10B. What is musical similarity? or here Humdrum Analysis 2 Musical dice game (usually) Instead for this week: Harmony in Humdrum
10	18 Mar 2021	Non-standard music representations in Humdrum Tab and Koto notation

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