music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology and Symbolic Music Data

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 provide powerful softwar...

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Main Authors: Cuthbert, Michael Scott (Contributor), Ariza, Christopher T. (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Humanities. Music and Theater Arts Section (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Society for Music Information Retrieval, 2014-02-14T18:40:17Z.
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