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MAXSCORE: MUSIC NOTATION IN MAX/MSP

Nick Didkovsky, Georg Hajdu

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This paper presents MaxScore, a Max object that provides standard western music notation in Max/MSP (Puckette, Zicarelli).MaxScore supports a rich set of Max messages that allows the user to populate a score with notes, query note properties, transform notes, play a score through Max/MSP via a well-defined instrument interface, and export a score in a variety of popular notation formats including MusicXML and LilyPond (Nienhuys).Transcription of Max-generated music is provided as well as note entry and editing by mouse or under program control.MaxScore supports user-defined plug-ins written in Java.We also present two applications, which utilize MaxScore: one that generates compositions in real-time, and another, which performs spectral transcription.MaxScore is written in Java Music Specification Language (Didkovsky, Burk) but requires no Java programming to use.

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This paper presents MaxScore, a Max object that provides standard western music notation in Max/MSP (Puckette, Zicarelli).MaxScore supports a rich set of Max messages that allows the user to populate a score with notes, query note properties, transform notes, play a score through Max/MSP via a well-defined instrument interface, and export a score in a variety of popular notation formats including MusicXML and LilyPond (Nienhuys).Transcription of Max-generated music is provided as well as note entry and editing by mouse or under program control.MaxScore supports user-defined plug-ins written in Java.We also present two applications, which utilize MaxScore: one that generates compositions in real-time, and another, which performs spectral transcription.MaxScore is written in Java Music Specification Language (Didkovsky, Burk) but requires no Java programming to use.

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This paper presents MaxScore, a Max object that provides standard western music notation in Max/MSP (Puckette, Zicarelli).MaxScore supports a rich set of Max messages that allows the user to populate a score with notes, query note properties, transform notes, play a score through Max/MSP via a well-defined instrument interface, and export a score in a variety of popular notation formats including MusicXML and LilyPond (Nienhuys).Transcription of Max-generated music is provided as well as note entry and editing by mouse or under program control.MaxScore supports user-defined plug-ins written in Java.We also present two applications, which utilize MaxScore: one that generates compositions in real-time, and another, which performs spectral transcription.MaxScore is written in Java Music Specification Language (Didkovsky, Burk) but requires no Java programming to use.

Key concepts: Notation, Computer science, Programming language, Java, Musical notation, Plug-in, Java Modeling Language, Generics in Java

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