Projects

music21

Although computers have transformed how we listen to, obtain, compose, and notate music, they have not fundamentally changed how we research and analyze music. Though many computer databases have been created for musicology, they are not well adapted for sophisticated music queries. For instance ... [More] , melodies can be found if exact matches exist. But melodic variations such as the repetition of a phrase or a change in embellishment are extremely common, yet cause searches to fail. More complex investigations, such as finding all melodies that imply a particular underlying harmony, can barely begin to be created with existing software packages. The lack of relevant software for analyzing music hampers scientific attempts to understand what we listen for and how we process what we hear; these act [Less]

ptabtools

PowerTab Tools contains a library for accessing PowerTab Tablature files (*.ptb) and utilities for converting .ptb files to ASCII and GNU LilyPond files.

Impro-Visor

See http://www.impro-visor.com. Music notation, advice, and play-back tool for helping musicians learn to improvise. Melody generator, Leadsheet, Auto-Accomp, MIDI, MusicXML export. User group http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/impro-visor/.

here-i-am

Here I Am is an open source screen reader project based on a set of new design concepts and fueled by a philosophy that accessibility should be free. The Here I Am project seeks to address several shortcomings of current screen reading technology, namely complexity, unreliability, and, most ... [More] importantly, cost. This screen reader also focuses on improving communication for the visually impaired. The underlying framework promotes standards compliance by allowing the user to interact with complex content in new ways. [Less]

musicxml2svg

A stylesheet to transform a MusicXML file to an SVG.

musicsheet

This project aims showing automatically generated musical sheets within webpages using Javascript and vectoral graphic formats(SVG, VML). The Javascript application will read MusicXML formatted file and render musical sheets of these files to show it within web pages.

partita

Personal music score organizer. Webbased and written in XQuery, to run on top of an XML DBMS. Still in pre-alpha stage...

jmusicxml

JMusicXml is a low framework to handle data using the musicXml format.

Roemer

Professional music typesetting, according to the book "The Art Of Music Copying" by Clinton Roemer. Reads MusicXML, CMN, ABC and Guido. Produces MIDI, PostScript, PDF, PNG and SVG; from small images for the web to full printable sheet music.

bmml

BMML it's a XML encoding for the Braille Music notation. It was developed by the Contrapunctus project and released as open source at the end. Together with the BMML definition a set of libraries has been produced. The libraries are written in Python and can be freely used to produce both ... [More] opensource and commercial software that can read/write BMML files, convert to MusicXML or MIDI. [Less]