music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology and Symbolic Music Data. Cuthbert, M. S. & Ariza, C. 11\textsuperscriptth International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ismir 2010)2, International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2010.
music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology and Symbolic Music Data [pdf]Paper  abstract   bibtex   
Music21 is an object-oriented toolkit for analyzing, searching, and transforming music in symbolic (score- based) forms. The modular approach of the project allows musicians and researchers to write simple scripts rapidly and reuse them in other projects. The toolkit aims to pro- vide powerful software tools integrated with sophisticated musical knowledge to both musicians with little pro- gramming experience (especially musicologists) and to programmers with only modest music theory skills. This paper introduces the music21 system, demon- strating how to use it and the types of problems it is well- suited toward advancing. We include numerous examples of its power and flexibility, including demonstrations of graphing data and generating annotated musical scores. 1.

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