| Description |
xviii, 630 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Describing Musical Information / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- 2. MIDI / Walter B. Hewlett, Eleanor Selfridge-Field and David Cooper [et al.] -- App. 1. The General MIDI Instrument Specification / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- 3. MIDI Extensions for Musical Notation (1): NoTAMIDI Meta-Events / Kjell Nordli -- 4. MIDI Extensions for Musical Notation (2): Expressive MIDI / David Cooper, Kia-Chuan Ng and Roger D. Boyle -- 5. MIDI Extensions for Musical Notation (3): MIDIPlus / Walter B. Hewlett -- 6. MIDI Extensions for Sound Control: Augmented MIDI / Max V. Mathews -- App. 2. Overview of MIDI Extensions / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- 7. Csound / David Bainbridge -- 8. Music Macro Language / Toshiaki Matsushima -- 9. The NeXT ScoreFile / David Jaffe -- 10. The Radio Baton Conductor Score File / Max V. Mathews -- 11. DARMS, Its Dialects, and Its Uses / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- 12. DARMS: The Note-Processor Dialect / J. Stephen Dydo -- 13. DARMS: The A-R Dialect / Thomas Hall -- 14. DARMS Extensions for Lute Tablatures / Frans Wiering -- 15. DARMS Extensions for Mensural Notation / Lynn M. Trowbridge -- 16. Common Music Notation / Bill Schottstaedt -- 17. MuTeX, MusicTeX, and MusiXTeX / Werner Icking -- 18. Philip's Music Scribe / Philip Hazel -- 19. SCORE / Leland Smith -- 20. The LIME Tilia Representation / David Cottle and Lippold Haken -- 21. The Nightingale Notelist / Tim Crawford, Donald Byrd and John Gibson -- 22. Braille Musical Notation (1): An Overview / Roger Firman -- 23. Braille Musical Notation (2): Common Signs / Bettye Krolick and Sile O'Modhrain -- 24. The Essen Associative Code: A Code for Folksong Analysis / Helmut Schaffrath -- 25. Plaine and Easie Code: A Code for Music Bibliography / John Howard -- 26. Humdrum and Kern: Selective Feature Encoding / David Huron -- 27. MuseData: Multipurpose Representation / Walter B. Hewlett -- 28. Encoding of Compositional Units / Ulf Berggren -- 29. A Score-Segmentation Approach to Representation / Andranick Tanguiane -- 30. HyTime and Standard Music Description Language: A Document-Description Approach / Donald Sloan and Steven R. Newcomb -- 31. The Notation Interchange File Format: A Windows-Compliant Approach / Cindy Grande -- 32. Standard Music eXpression: Interchange of Common and Braille Notation / Toshiaki Matsushima -- App. 3. Code-Translation Programs / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- App. 4. Codes Supported by Optical Recognition Software / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- App. 5. Proposed Musical Characters in Unicode / Perry Roland -- 33. Beyond Codes: Issues in Musical Representation / Eleanor Selfridge-Field -- 34. Afterword: Guidelines for New Codes / David Halperin -- Glossary / Edmund Correia, Jr. and Eleanor Selfridge-Field et al |
| Summary |
The establishment of the Musical Instrument Digital Interface (MIDI) in the late 1980s allowed hobbyists and musicians to experiment with sound control in ways that previously had been possible only in research studios. MIDI is now the most prevalent representation of music, but what it represents is based on hardware control protocols for sound synthesis. Programs that support sound input for graphics output necessarily span a gamut of representational categories. What is most likely to be lost is any sense of the musical work. Thus, for those involved in pedagogy, analysis, simulation, notation, and music theory, the nature of the representation matters a great deal. An understanding of the data requirements of different applications is fundamental to the creation of interchange codes. The contributors to 'Beyond MIDI' present a broad range of schemes, illustrating a wide variety of approaches to music representation. Generally, each chapter describes the history and intended purposes of the code, a description of the representation of the primary attributes of music (pitch, duration, articulation, ornamentation, dynamics, and timbre), a description of the file organization, some mention of existing data in the format, resources for further information, and at least one encoded example. The book also shows how intended applications influence the kinds of musical information that are encoded |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Computer sound processing.
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MIDI (Standard)
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Music -- Data processing.
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Musical notation -- Data processing.
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| Author |
Selfridge-Field, Eleanor.
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| LC no. |
97002596 |
| ISBN |
0262193949 |
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