Music 253/CS 275a Winter 2013 Syllabus

This is the homepage for Music 253/CS 275a "Symbolic Musical Information" at Stanford University (Winter 2013).

Meeting times:		Tuesdays & Thursdays 1:15–3:05
Location:		Braun Music Building
Instructors:		Eleanor Selfridge-Field (esfield@stanford.edu) Craig Stuart Sapp (craig@ccrma.stanford.edu)
Office Hours:		3:05–4:05 Wednesdays and by appointment.
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 scenario: choices negotiable.
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Syllabus

Week	Dates	Topics
1	8 Jan 2012	Overview of music representation Malinowski's Music Animation Machine Rosetta stone of Musical Data Codes Assignment #1: Design your own music representation system (due 15 Jan 2012)
1	10 Jan 2012	Music representation and course resources Lab #1: Guido Assignment #2: Finish lab exercises at home
2	15 Jan 2012	Notation software: input methods Input methods in Finale and Sibelius (intro) Assignment #3: Finale homework (due 22 Jan 2012)
2	17 Jan 2012	Optical music recognition: SharpEye Data interchange: MusicXML
3	22 Jan 2012	Discuss Finale homework Lab #2: SharpEye Assignment #4: SharpEye to Finale/Sibelius/MuseScore/Noteflight
3	24 Jan 2012	SCORE or MIDI?
4	29 Jan 2012
4	31 Jan 2012
5	5 Feb 2012
5	7 Feb 2012
6	12 Feb 2012
6	14 Feb 2012
7	19 Feb 2012
7	21 Feb 2012
8	26 Feb 2012
8	28 Feb 2012
9	5 Jan 2012
9	7 Jan 2012
10	12 Jan 2012
10	14 Jan 2012