Museinfo: musical information programming in C++

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Museinfo is a set of C++ classes and example programs designed to be used to process, analyze and convert several types of musical data formats. The primary formats supported in museinfo listed below.

All of the data formats listed below are described in the book Beyond MIDI: A Handbook of Musical Codes, ed. Eleanor Selfridge-Field. MIT Press, 1997.

Humdrum A system of encoding simultaneous streams of information. A subset of this encoding scheme is the kern exclusive interpretation which stores the essential forms of musical data. The main purpose of this data type is for musical analysis. Data files are stored in an ASCII form with one movement per file. [ Humdrum resources ] MIDI Standard MIDI files are a binary data format that is used in a wide range of computer applications for sound and notation. The primary purpose of MIDI files is to store the commands for performance of music on a MIDI synthesizer. [ MIDI resources ] Musedata the musical encoding format for the Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities at Stanford University. The main purpose of this data format is to allow musical information to be printed, analyzed or transformed into other types of musical encoding. This data format is designed to encode particular editions of music for musicological study. Data files are stored in an ASCII form with one parts per file, and one movement in a directory. [ Musedata resources ] SCORE A data format for printed music. The primary purpose of SCORE data is for printing music. Data files are stored in binary file, but the SCORE program also reads/writes ASCII versions of the binary file information. Usually one music system or one page of music is stored in a file, and one movement is stored in multiple files arranged alphabetically. [ SCORE resources ]

There are two components to museinfo:

1. Library of C++ classes useful for working with musical data.
   • Class reference documentation.
   • Header files for use with compiled library.
   • Source code for use with compiled library.
   
   
2. Example programs for each type of musical data.
   • Humdrum based example programs.
   • MIDI based example programs.