Music 253/CS 275a Winter 2017 Syllabus
Music 253/CS 275a "Symbolic Musical Information"
Stanford University (Winter 2017).
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 (Using Musical Information: 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 Center, Rooms 131 (lecture), 128 (lab entry from Room 129) | |
Instructors: | Eleanor Selfridge-Field (esfield@stanford.edu) Mauricio Rodriguez (marod@ccrma.stanford.edu) | |
Office Hours: | 3:05–4:05 Tuesdays and by appointment. | |
Credits: | 2–4 | |
Grading: |
Four-credits: class attendance: 25%; weekly assignments: 50%; take-home final: 25%. |
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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. |
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
- Lecture 01A: Musical InformationVideo version
- Lecture M1a: Music Notation and Representation
- Demo: Malinowski's Music Animation Machine
- Assignment #1: Design your own music representation system (Due 17 Jan 2017)
- Lecture 01B: Applying Musical Information
- Lecture M1b: Rosetta Stone of Musical Encodings (see also Rosetta Stone of Musical Data Codes wikipage)
- Lab #1: Guido Music Notation
- Assignment #2: Finish Guido lab exercises at home (Due 19 Jan 2017)
- Lecture 02A: Input Methods for Musical Notation
- Lab #2a: Computer keyboard Input methods in Finale
- Lecture 2B: Sound-MIDI Introduction 2017
- Lab #2b: MIDI keyboard Input methods in Finale
- Assignment #3: Finish Lab 2b exercises (Due 24 Jan 2017)
- Lecture 03A: Optical Music Recognition 2016.pdf
- Lecture M2: Introduction to XML/MusicXML
- Lab #3: Optical music recognition with SharpEye
- Assignment #4: SharpEye to Finale/MuseScore/Noteflight (Due 31 Jan 2017)
- Lecture 03B: MIDI Continuation 2017
- Lecture M3a: MIDI protocol (extra: Hexadecimal numbers)
- Topic: MIDI roadmap of the byte
- Topic: MIDI bytes/messages (cinmidi)
- Topic: MIDI messages
- Lecture M3b: Standard MIDI Files
- Topic: Outline of the Standard MIDI File structure
- Topic: Variable length values
- Field trip to CCRMA's Disklavier. Demo, discussion. Come prepared to record your own MIDI file to use for your homework.
- Lecture 04A: Timbre and Quantization (MIDI)
- Topic: General MIDI instruments (plus percussion key numbers on channel 10)
- Topic: General MIDI continuous controllers
- binasc tool for creating MIDI files in a text editor
- Assignment #5a: MIDI file parsing homework (Due 7 Feb 2017)
- Lecture 05A: Introduction to SCORE
- Lab: SCORE user input
- SCORE 5-Stage Input Reference
- Lecture 05B. Repertories with Special Needs
- Lab: Input exercises done on paper in previous session
- SCORE survival guide
- Lecture 06A. Extremes within CMN
- Lab: Input slightly harder SCORE examples
- Homework #6: Finish SCORE user input 2, Due 21 February 2017
- Lecture 06B. Score textures and tracks
- Lecture: SCORE parameters
- Score parameter examples: notes, slurs/ties
- Lecture 07A. Codes for Archiving and Repurposing: The Essen Associative Code (EsAC) and Plaine & Easie (used in RISM)
- Lab/Homework: Hard SCORE exercises, Due 2 March 2017
- Lecture 08A. Markup Languages for Music: MusicXML and MEI
- Lecture: MusicXML and musical parameters
- Lecture 08b. Base-40 Arithmetic for Music Apps
- Lecture: MEI overview
- 30 Short MEI encoding examples
- XML homework (Due March 9)
- Lecture 09A. Introduction to Humdrum
- Lecture: Humdrum file format
- Lecture 09B. Uses of Humdrum
- Lab: Humdrum Tools I
- Humdrum homework (Due March 16).
- Lecture 10A. Basic Concepts in Music Copyright
- Lecture 10A (2017): Music Copyright
- Musical Dice: http://www.ccarh.org/courses/253/lab/kerndice
- Lecture/Demo: Humdrum Tools II
- Lab: Humdrum Lab
- Lecture 10B. From IP to Data Resources
Week | Dates | Topics |
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1 | 10 Jan 2017 |
Overview of music representation and course resources |
1 | 12 Jan 2017 |
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2 | 17 Jan 2017 |
Input methods: textual input |
2 | 19 Jan 2017 |
Input methods: MIDI keyboard input |
3 | 24 Jan 2017 |
Input methods: OMR and Data Interchange |
3 | 26 Jan 2017 |
MIDI Protocol/Standard MIDI Files |
4 | 31 Jan 2017 |
General MIDI |
4 | 2 Feb 2017 |
MIDI Extensions/Wrap-up |
5 | 7 Feb 2017 |
SCORE user input code |
5 | 9 Feb 2017 |
SCORE music editor |
6 | 14 Feb 2017 |
SCORE simple examples |
6 | 16 Feb 2017 |
SCORE parameters |
7 | 21 Feb 2017 |
SCORE parameters 2 |
7 | 23 Feb 2017 |
MuseData |
8 | 28 Feb 2017 |
MusicXML |
8 | 2 Mar 2017 |
Transposition via Base-40 MEI |
9 | 7 Mar 2017 |
Humdrum file format |
9 | 9 Mar 2017 |
Humdrum Analysis 1 |
10 | 14 Mar 2017 |
Music as Intellectual Property Humdrum Analysis 2 |
10 | 16 Mar 2017 |
Non-standard music representations in Humdrum |
FE | 23 Mar 2017 |
Take-home final (4-credit students) Due by 10 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.