Notation and Musical Tone

Musical Expertise and Melodic Structure in Memory for Musical Notation

From MIDI to Traditional Musical Notation

In this paper a system that is designed to extract the musical score from a MIDI performance is described. The proposed system comprises of a number of modules that perform the following tasks: identification of elementary musical objects, calculation of accent (salience) of musical events, beat induction, beat tracking, onset quantisation, streaming, duration quantisation and pitch spelling. T...

Graphic to Symbolic Representations of Musical Notation

This paper discusses the SCORE data format, a graphically oriented music representation developed in the early 1970’s, and how such a representation can be converted into sequential descriptions of music notation. The graphical representation system for the SCORE editor is presented along with case studies for parsing and converting the data into other symbolic music formats such as Dox, Humdru...

Musical notation for multi-touch interfaces

This paper explores the creation and testing of a new system for notating physical touch actions on a surface. This notation is conceptualized through and initially tested on multi-touch interfaces. A brief examination of movement notation concepts is followed by an overview of design challenges considered. The notation symbols and formats are detailed. A testing procedure was carried out in or...

Speech Prosody in Musical Notation: Spanish, Portuguese and English

This study uses musical notation to describe speech prosody in connected speech in Brazilian Portuguese and Mexican Spanish, using English as a comparison where needed. Through this research we establish the basis on which to expand our future work on speech prosody, from methodology to data collection and analyses, and then make initial observations regarding potentially significant prosodic p...