Musical Information (Mus 253/CS 275A) Syllabus, Winter 2005

week 1:		Introduction and Guido Music Notation
   Jan 4:	* Introduction and Tour of the Lab 
			+ examples of various musical data encodings [PowerPoint]
			+ visualizing music: Music Animation Machine piano-roll notation
			+ assignment #1: design a notation system
   Jan 6:	* Guido Music Notation
			+ performance score versus analytic score
			+ visualizing music: Harmony Visualizations
			+ Guido lab exercises (assignment #2)


week 2:		Finale Music Typesetting Program 
   Jan 11:	* Finale User Input modes: Simple, Speedy, Real-Time.
			+ Finale data entry lab (assignment #3)
   Jan 13:	* Web distribution of Musical Scores (assignment #4)
			+ Scanned music (as graphic files and PDF)
			+ Computer Typeset music (as PDF)
			+ Virtual Scores (Digital score data)
			+ Copyright considerations
			+ Searching music: Themefinder
		* Choral Public Domain Library (Raphael Ornes, founder, 11:00-11:50)


week 3:		MusicXML & SharpEye
   Jan 18:	* MusicXML data format [PowerPoint]
		* Origins of MusicXML: MuseData (Walter Hewlett 11:00-11:50)
   Jan 20:	* Optical Music Recognition
		* Data transport between programs with MusicXML
		* SharpEye lab (assignment #5)


week 4:		SCORE user input
   Jan 25:	* User Input for SCORE
			+ SCORE User Input lab
   Jan 27:	* SCORE program


week 5:		SCORE parameters
   Feb 1:	* No class
   Feb 3:       * Introduction to SCORE code items and parameters
		* MuseData to SCORE conversion (Walter Hewlett 11:00-11:50)


week 6:		SCORE parameters (2) / MIDI Introduction
   Feb 8:	* SCORE Parameters (2)
		* SCORE for Windows (Leland Smith 11:00-11:50)
   Feb 10:       Note: class meets Feb. 10th in Wilbur Module C, Room C06F.
		* Music V and its relation to SCORE/MIDI (Max Mathews 10:00-10:50)
		* MIDI on the radio baton (Max Mathews 11:00-11:50)


week 7:		Standard MIDI Files
   Feb 15:	* MIDI Protocol
		* Raw MIDI data
   Feb 17:	* Standard MIDI Files
		* MIDI sequencer

week 8:		MIDI limitations/extensions
   Feb 22:	* Music Transposition
		* Performance data versus notation data
   Feb 24:	* Notational enhancements to MIDI
		* MIDI Plus (Walter Hewlett 11:00-11:50)


week 9:		Humdrum music data
   Mar 1:	* kern music data
			+ KernScores
   Mar 3:	* Humdrum Toolkit (Rodrigo Segnini 10:00-10:50)
		* Example uses of the Humdrum Toolkit (Rodrigo Segnini 11:00-11:50)


week 10:	Applications of Humdrum
   Mar 8:	* Musical Dice Game
   Mar 10:	* Representing non-western musical notation: **koto