ISE599: Engineering Approaches to Music Perception and Cognition

Week 2 (22 Jan 2003): Representing Music



  1. Introduction to Common (Western) Music Notation

    Student summaries of the class.

    Some Music Notation Software

  2. Some Digital Representations

  3. Additional References

  4. Readings handed out in class

    • Notes on the first reading
      "Design Principles in Computer-Based Music Representation."
      by David Huron (1992). In Computer Representations and Models in Music. Academic Press.

    • Notes on the second reading
      "Music representation issues, techniques, and systems."
      by Roger Dannenberg (1993). Computer Music Journal, 17:3 pp. 20-30.

    • Notes on the third reading
      "A framework for the evaluation of music representation systems."
      by Wiggens, G., Miranda, E., Smaill, A. & Harris, M. (1993) Computer Music Journal, 17:3 pp. 31-42.



Posted 22 Jan 2003.

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