Music 253/CS 275a Winter 2013 Syllabus

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Music 253/CS 275a "Symbolic Musical Information"
Stanford University (Winter 2013).

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: Tuesdays & Thursdays 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:

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 (selected homeworks).

Website: music253.stanford.edu
wiki.ccarh.org/wiki/Music 253 Overview of individual topics presented in Music 253.
Prerequisites: Ability to read standard music notation. Knowledge of central concepts of tonal music theoory (see Tutorial).
Textbook: E. Selfridge-Field, ed., Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes (MIT Press, 1997). Available online by permission of the publisher.

Syllabus

Week Dates Topics
1 8 Jan 2012

Overview of music representation

1 10 Jan 2012

Music representation and course resources

2 15 Jan 2012

Notation software: input methods #1: MIDI

2 17 Jan 2012

Notation software: input methods #2: OMR

  • Optical music recognition: SharpEye
  • Introduction to MusicXML
3 22 Jan 2012

OMR and Data Interchange

3 24 Jan 2012

MIDI Protocol/General MIDI

  • Lecture: Hexadecimal numbers
  • Lecture/Lab: MIDI bytes/messages (cinmidi)
4 29 Jan 2012

Standard MIDI Files

  • Variable length values
  • Assignment: MIDI file parsing
4 31 Jan 2012

MIDI Extensions/Wrap-up

5 5 Feb 2012

SCORE user input code

5 7 Feb 2012

SCORE music editor

6 12 Feb 2012

SCORE simple examples

6 14 Feb 2012

SCORE parameters

7 19 Feb 2012

SCORE hard examples

7 21 Feb 2012

MuseData & MusicXML

8 26 Feb 2012

MEI

8 28 Feb 2012
9 5 Mar 2012

Humdrum file format

9 7 Mar 2012

Humdrum Analysis 1

10 12 Mar 2012

Humdrum Analysis 2

10 14 Mar 2012

Non-standard music representations in Humdrum

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).
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