music-research@HPLPM.HPL.HP.COM (11/17/90)
Music-Research Digest Fri, 16 Nov 90 Volume 5 : Issue 94
Today's Topics:
LIME
Music Macros for TeX . .
public domain music notation sw?
score editors
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Date: 14 Nov 90 20:20:55 GMT
From: walker%m.cs.uiuc.edu%ux1.cso.uiuc.edu%julius.cs.uiuc.edu%zaphod.mps.ohio-s@uk.ac.oxford.prg>
Subject: LIME
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <walker.658614055@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Correspondence about the following should be sent to l-haken@uiuc.edu!
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The University of Illinois CERL PLATO Music Group is pleased to
announce the availability of a demonstration version of Lime, a
powerful score editing program for Macintosh SE and II series
computers. A StuffIt file containing the executable and manual can be
copied via anonymous FTP from novamail.cerl.uiuc.edu (inet number:
128.174.180.9)
If you do copy it, please send email to l-haken@uiuc.edu so we can
keep track of who is testing it.
We recommend a 68030-based Macintosh with a hard disk and at
least 2 megabyte of RAM. The MacPlus and MacPortable will also work
(given sufficient memory), but more slowly.
Lippold Haken
l-haken@uiuc.edu
252 Education Research Lab
103 S. Mathews
Urbana, Il 61801-2977
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Date: 14 Nov 90 12:23:19 GMT
From: etrmg%levels%sirius.ucs.adelaide.edu.au%munnari.oz.au@net.uu.uunet (What a
Subject: Music Macros for TeX . .
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <15681.27413737@levels.sait.edu.au>
Hello everyone:
I was poking around the net again, only to find in SIMTEL's PD1:<MSDOS.TEX>
a file named MUTEX.arc which evidently contains Music Macros for Tex.
In case there are those who don't know wot Tex is, it is basically a typesetting
system, more for Postscript printers and the like. All of it is available in
that directory anyways, so if you are interested, go there and find out more.
This would be good for those of you who need to get it all down on paper;
and make it look good, without going to a professional (besides yerself) :-)
Ronn
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Date: 13 Nov 90 18:29:50 GMT
From: sh0001%medtron%nightowl%s5000%atc%cs.umn.edu%msi.umn.edu%umeecs%umich%sams@uk.ac.oxford.prg>
Subject: public domain music notation sw?
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <1990Nov13.182950.661@medtron.medtronic.com>
Finale (by Coda) provides fairly extensive support for generating Guitar
tablature. As with other things in Finale, you have an amazing
degree of control over the output format, available only by mastering
an amazingly complex/frustrating user interface. Once you get used to
it though. . .
Briefly, you can completely define the staves your music is to be displayed
on. There are defaults for the Western 5-line staves, but you can
define custom ones to support microtonal, etc.
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Date: 13 Nov 90 21:17:40 GMT
From: sdy%media-lab@edu.mit.eddie (Shahrokh David Yadegari)
Subject: score editors
To: music-research@prg
Message-ID: <4022@media-lab.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
In article <aw236r.96w@wang.com> EDWARD.STAUFF@OFFICE.WANG.COM (Edward L. Stauff
) writes:
>Tony Garland was asking about score editors (music notation packages). I
>haven't seen anything public-domain, and I've been looking too. Score and
>Finale are supposed to do just about everything, so I expect they'll do
>tablature as well. They're expensive, though (around $700). However, the
>Note Processor can be used to do tablature, and it's only around $240. This
>package also supports a "semi-standard format" called DARMS, which is ASCII
>based.
>
>-- Ed Stauff Edward.Stauff@OFFICE.Wang.com
What is DARMS? Where can I get information about it?
I would appreciate any information on any other format also.
Thanks,
--sdy (David Yadegari 617-253-7442 Media Lab, MIT)
[ DARMS, once also known as the Ford-Columbia Language, is one of the major
(some would say the only) input languages capable of representing tradition-
al Western music notation, however complex, as alphanumeric characters.
DARMS was invented in the days of the card punch, but has been taken
forward by Bruce McLean and others as the input system to build complex
data structures for musical analysis.
DARMS is important for musical study because it allows notation to be
recorded as written -- without any interpretation -- and therefore a
musical score can be analysed in its written form. (For details on
written vs sounded vs perceived music, see article by Kassler and Howe
in the New Grove). For musicologists and music analysts this is an
important distinction.
A number of repertoires of DARMS music exist in various places. The
Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities is a good
place to look for details of these.
Details of DARMS can be found in the following references:
Stefan Bauer-Mengelberg, "The Ford-Columbia Input Language", in
Brook, Musicology and The Computer, pp. 48-52.
Raymond F. Erickson, DARMS: A Reference Manual (New York:
[ Queens College of the City Univ. of NY], 1977).
See also chapter 3 ("A New APproach to Input Systems") of my thesis:
Stephen Dowland Page, "Computer Tools for Music Information
Retrieval", Diss. Oxford, 1988.
- S ]
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