Web Delivery of Music using the GUIDO NoteServer

GUIDO Music Notation is capable of adequately representing almost any kind of score-level music. The GUIDO NoteServer is an online service for converting arbitrary GUIDO descriptions into graphical images of the corresponding conventional scores. In this presentation, we describe the inner workings of the GUIDO NoteServer and how it is used to deliver high quality music scores through the web. The GUIDO NoteServer GUIDO Music Notation was first introduced in 1998 as a novel approach for adequately representing score-level music [1]. Based on a simple, yet powerful and easily extensible formalism, GUIDO is realised as a plain-text, humanreadable and platform independent format. GUIDO can be completely embedded within XML using GUIDOXML, which has been developed recently. The GUIDO NoteServer is a free online services (available at http://www.noteserver.org) that converts GUIDO descriptions into graphics of conventional scores that can be viewed with a Web browser or can easily be embedded in Web pages. The original service has been greatly extended since 1998 to offer other important features like platform independent, interactive score notation using JAVA. Figure 1 gives an overview of the architecture of the GUIDO NoteServer. References [1] H. H. Hoos, K. A. Hamel, K. Renz, and J. Kilian. The GUIDO Notation Format – A Novel Approach for Adequatley RepreAlso affiliated with the Computer Science Department, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany senting Score-Level Music. In Proceedings of the 1998 International Computer Music Conference, pages 451–454. International Computer Music Association, 1998. GUIDO description Coded by hand MIDI Sibelius Finale Score Virtual Keyboard (Converted from other Notation Packages) (Converted with midi2GMN) GUIDO NoteServer PERL script (administration) CGI or Secure Socket Layer