MuseData

MuseData is a cluster of interrelated projects focused on a comprehensive scheme of full-score music encoding developed from 1984 to the present by Walter B. Hewlett. MuseData seeks to support the creation, editing, and use of full scores and their by-products (scores, short-scores, parts). Its purview was originally limited to notation and score-presentation of the common-practice period (1600-1860). It has also been extended for projects involving mensural and other early notations.

The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities, currently hosted by the Parckard Humanities Institute and physically based at Stanford University, has used MuseData extensively in the encoding of classical repertories. The production of performing materials is undertaken selectively. Currently, more than 1,100 works have been encoded.

MuseData is a dynamic system. Musical scores can be updated only with difficut in traditional print-oriented scenarios. MuseData has aimed to develop a software system that is always backwardly compatible. The data ifself can be modified to capture new information, changing interpretations, and new arrangements.

See MuseData: file format for a description of the endoding format.

See http://www.musedata.org for access to the musical data.

See pages such as Corelli, Beethoven, Handel and Vivaldi for musically-oriented access to the data.

Other scores can be found on http://scores.ccarh.org