Music 253/CS 275a Winter 2020 Syllabus

Music 253/CS 275a "Symbolic Musical Information"
Stanford University (Winter 2020).

This music-information course surveys symbolic frameworks and methods for a wide range of musical 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 (Music Query, Analysis, and Style Simulation), which focuses on projects requiring a working knowledge of notation and sound software.

Meeting times:		Tuesday & Thursdays 1:30–2:50
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:		3:05–4:05 Tuesdays & Thursdays and by appointment.
Credits:		2–4
Grading:		Four-credits: class attendance: 25%; weekly assignments: 50%; take-home final: 25%. Three-credit/no final: class attendance: 33%; weekly assignments: 67%. Two-credit/no final: 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.

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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	7 Jan 2020	Overview of music representation and course resources Lecture 01A: Musical Information or PDF version or Video version Lecture C1: Music representation Demo: Malinowski's Music Animation Machine Assignment #1: Design your own music representation system (due 14 Jan 2020) Informal Course Participation Survey
1	9 Jan 2020	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 16 Jan 2020)

Week 2

Week	Dates	Topics
2	14 Jan 2020	Input methods: textual input Lecture 02A: Input Methods for Musical Notation. Also here Lab #2a: Computer keyboard Input methods in MuseScore
2	16 Jan 2020	Input methods: MIDI keyboard input Lecture 2B: Sound-MIDI Introduction 2020 Lab #2b: MIDI keyboard Input methods in MuseScore Assignment #3: Finish Lab 2 exercises (due 21 Jan 2020)

Week 3

Week	Dates	Topics
3	21 Jan 2020	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 29 Jan 2020)
3	23 Jan 2020	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	28 Jan 2020	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 4 Feb 2020)
4	30 Jan 2020	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 6 Feb 2020)

Week 5

Week	Dates	Topics
5	4 Feb 2020	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	6 Feb 2020	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	11 Feb 2020	SCORE simple examples Lecture 06A. Extremes within CMN or here Guest lecture: Akiko Washino Lab: Input slightly harder SCORE examples Homework #6: Finish SCORE user input 2, due 18 Feb 2020
6	13 Feb 2020	Tour of the Archive of Recorded Sound and the Dennis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls. Tour of the Archive of Recorded Sound and the Dennis Condon Collection of Reproducing Pianos and Rolls. SCORE parameters Lecture 06B. Score textures and tracks or here Week 7 Week Dates Topics 7 18 Feb 2020 Lecture 07A. Codes for data archiving, interchange, and analysis or here SCORE parameters 2 Lab/Homework: Hard SCORE exercises, due 27 Feb 2020 7 20 Feb 2020 MuseData Lecture 07B. Codes for Archiving and Repurposing: MuseData (presented by Walter B. Hewlett) Beethoven String Quartets MuseData files for the quartets muse2ps for printing the MuseData files Week 8 Week Dates Topics 8 25 Feb 2020 MusicXML Lecture 08A. Markup Languages for Music: MusicXML and MEIand here Lecture: MusicXML and musical parameters 8 27 Feb 2020 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 4 Mar 2020 Humdrum file format Lecture 09A. Introduction to Humdrum or here Lecture: Humdrum file format Introduction to **kern music encoding Verovio Humdrum Viewer (2017 MEC presentation slides for VHV) Homework: Encode examples in Humdrum using VHV editor (due this Thursday). 9 6 Mar 2020 Humdrum Analysis 1 Lecture 09B. Uses of Humdrum or here Lab: Humdrum Lab Lab: Humdrum Tools I Humdrum homework (due next Thursday) Week 10 Week Dates Topics 10 11 Mar 2020 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 Lecture/Demo: Humdrum Tools II 10 13 Mar 2020 Non-standard music representations in Humdrum Tab and Koto notation FE 18 Mar 2020 Take-home final (4-credit students) due by 11 p.m. General Policies and University Rules General policies and university rules: Delivery times: Assignments: by the start of the class for which they are due. Final exam: by 11 p.m. of the assigned date. Honor code: We will act and expect you to act according to the Stanford Honor Code. 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 accommodations. The OAE is located at 563 Salvatierra Walk (phone 723-1066), URL http://oae.stanford.edu.