guido music notation jordan smith mumt 611 24 january 2008
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GUIDO Music Notation
Jordan SmithMUMT 611
24 January 2008
OverviewGUIDO is a music notation language.
1. GUIDO’s goals2. How GUIDO notates music3. How GUIDO engraves music4. GUIDO applications:
– Gide– NoteServer– SALIERI– MIR
5. Pros and Cons of GUIDO
Guido d’Arezzo
• Credited with inventing music notation
Image source: http://nrm.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Guido_van_Arezzo.jpg
1. Neumatic Notation
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Neume2.jpg
2. Conventional Music Notation
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Bachlut1.gif
3. Modern Engraving
Image source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Chopin_Prelude_No._7.JPG
4. GUIDO Music Notation
{ [\title<"No.3"> \tempo<"Andantino">
\staff<1> \clef<"g"> \key<+1> \meter<"3/8">
\i<"p"> d2/8 |
\sl(\dim(d h1)) h
\sl(\dim(h g)) g
\sl(\cresc(f# a c2))
\sl(c h1) ],
[ \staff<2> \clef<"g">
\key<+1> \meter<"3/8">
_/8 |
h1 _ _
g _ h0
\sl(c1 f# a)
\sl(a g)]
}
Example source: http://www.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/AFS/GUIDO/demos.html
1. GUIDO’s goals
• Adequacy:– Simple musical concepts are simple to
encode
– Only more complex concepts are complicated to encode
Adequacy
Renz 2002 p. 9, 18
1. GUIDO’s goals
• Adequacy:– Simple musical concepts are simple to
encode
• Human readability
Human readability
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?> <!DOCTYPE score-partwise PUBLIC "-//Recordare//DTD MusicXML 2.0 Partwise//EN" "http://www.musicxml.org/dtds/partwise.dtd"> <score-partwise version="2.0"> <part-list> <score-part id="P1"> <part-name>Music</part-name> </score-part> </part-list> <part id="P1"> <measure number="1"> <attributes> <divisions>1</divisions> <key> <fifths>0</fifths> </key> <time> <beats>4</beats> <beat-type>4</beat-type> </time> <clef> <sign>G</sign> <line>2</line> </clef> </attributes> <note> <pitch> <step>C</step> <octave>4</octave> </pitch> <duration>4</duration> <type>whole</type> </note> </measure> </part> </score-partwise>
[ \clef<"treble"> \meter<"4/4"> c/1 ]
Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML
1. GUIDO’s goals
• Adequacy:– Simple musical concepts are simple to
encode
• Human readability
• Perfect formatting
• Multifunctional
2. Notation
• Basic Notation
• Advanced Notation
• Extended Notation
2. Notation
• Basic notation[ Sequences ]
{ Segments }
c do d&& bis1*1/4
\clef<“treble”>
all together: [ \slur( f g {f/2, a2, c}) ]
2. Notation
• Advanced notation\slurBegin:1 … \slurEnd:1
\clef<type=“g2”, size=0.5>
\glissando<style=“wavy”,dx1=2mm,dy1=1.5hs … >
2. Notation
• Extended notationMicro-tonal features
Exact timing
User-defined GUIDO tags and events
3. Engraving
• Translation between abstract representation (AR) and graphical representation (GR)
GUIDO file > (parse) > AR > (physics) > GR
3. Engraving
Renz 2002 p. 88
3. Engraving
Renz 2002 p. 94
3. Engraving
Renz 2002 p. 97
4. Applications: NoteServer(and NoteViewer)
• Quickly create passages of music for any purpose: pedagogy, WEB, etc.
4. Applications: Gide
• A syntax highlight editor for GUIDO files
4. Applications: SALIERI
• A structure-oriented environment for composition, manipulation, and analysis of music.
(Think MATLAB.)
Hoos, Kilian et al. 1998
Hoos, Kilian et al. 1998
4. Applications: MIR abilities
Step 1. Create database using PERL (GUIDO is text-based)
Step 2. Pre-calculate transition probability matrices for absolute pitch and rhythm of each element in database
Step 3. Hierarchically cluster pieces
Step 4. Search!
5. Pros and Cons of GUIDOi. Incomplete, and inactive
since 2003– Extended notation and
postscript output of NoteViewer are missing
ii. Is being human-writable an asset?
iii. Poor at representing the vertical and horizontal simultaneously
i. Translates to and from major formats: XML, Finale, Sibelius.
ii. Perhaps not for authoring, but it is certainly human-editable
iii. …like every other computer-based format!
• Plus, it’s complete.
…but…
Question period!
BibliographyHoos, Holger H., Keith A. Hamel, Kai Renz, Jürgen Kilian. 1998. The GUIDO Notation Format: A
Novel Approach for Adequately Representing Score-Level Music. ICMC ’98 Proceedings: 451-4.
Hoos, Holger H., Jurgen Kilian, Kai Renz, Thomas Helbich. 1998. SALIERI: A General, Interactive Computer Music System. ICMC ’98 Proceedings: 385-392.
Hoos, Holger H., Keith A. Hamel, Kai Renz. 1999. Using Advanced GUIDO as a Notation Interchange Format. ICMC ’99 Proceedings: 395-8.
Hoos, Holger H., Kai Renz, Marko Görg. 2001. GUIDO/MIR: an Experimental Musical Information Retrieval System based on GUIDO Music Notation. ISMIR ’01 Proceedings: 41-50.
Hoos, Holger H., Keith A. Hamel. 2004. The GUIDO Music Notation Format Version 1.0. Specification Part 1: Basic GUIDO. http://www.salieri.org/GUIDO/docu/spec1.htm (accessed 23 January 2008).
Renz, Kai, Holger H. Hoos. 1998 A WEB-based Approach to Music Notation using GUIDO. ICMC ’98 Proceedings: 455-8.
Renz, Kai. 2002. Algorithms and Data Structures for a Music Notation System based on GUIDO Music Notation. PhD diss., Darmstadt University of Technology.