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Music 253 / CS 275a Symbolic Musical Information

Winter 2023

Stanford University

This preparatory course discusses symbolic frameworks in music-information, advanced notation systems, and data file structures. It's geared towards preparing for a course focused on computational musical analysis. Prerequisites include reading standard music notation and understanding tonal music theory.

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This music-information introduction surveys symbolic frameworks and methods for a wide range of applications. Areas covered include advanced notation systems, optical music recognition, data conversion and synchronization, and the internal structure of data files. The course is preparatory for Music 254/CS 275B (Computational Musical Analysis), which focuses on projects requiring a working knowledge of notation and familiarity with sound software.

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Ability to read standard music notation. Knowledge of central concepts of tonal music theory (see Tutorial).

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