Music-Research Digest Sun, 29 Apr 90 Volume 5 : Issue 42 Today's Topics: A Computer-Oriented Description of Music Notation Call for contributions: Computing in Musicology plainchant "grammars" X3V1.8M: meeting notice (13th meeting) *** Send contributions to Music-Research@uk.ac.oxford.prg *** Send administrative requests to Music-Research-Request *** Overseas users should reverse UK addresses and give gateway if necessary *** e.g. Music-Research@prg.oxford.ac.uk *** or Music-Research%prg.oxford.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: 27 Apr 1990 12:44-EST (1 left) More: (Enter) or (Y)es, (N)o, (NS)non-stop? ns From: Arvid Vollsnes Subject: A Computer-Oriented Description of Music Notation To: Music-Research-Request@prg Message-ID: <641213051/arvid@barfot> MUSIC NOTATION BY COMPUTERS We have published a three part report written by Jon Groever: A COMPUTER-ORIENTED DESCRIPTION OF MUSIC NOTATION Part I: The Symbol Inventory (35+25p) Part II: Two Voices sharing a Staff, Leger Line Rules, Dot Positioning (160p) Part III: Accidental Positioning (80p) The report costs US$ 22 + postage (Scandinavia free, Europe US$ 10, overseas surface US$ 10, overseas airmail US$ 20). It may be ordered from MUSIKUS Department of Music University of Oslo P.O.Box 1017, Blindern N-0315 OSLO 3 Norway or Arvid Vollsnes (arvid@ifi.uio.no) ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Apr 90 15:28:38 PDT From: Eleanor Selfridge Subject: Call for contributions: Computing in Musicology To: music-research@com.sun.eng.bartok Message-ID: <9004242228.AA01453@Sun.COM> April 24, 1990 The Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities is accepting between now and June 30 prospective contributions for the 1990 issue of "Computing in Musicology." This publication aims to present concise information about research now in progress and recently completed in the field of computer applications in musicology. It reaches more than 1000 readers worldwide. Free contributions of one to two typed, doubled-spaced pages may be mailed to the Center at 525 Middlefield Road, Suite 120, Menlo Park, CA 94025. Those wishing to submit examples of music encoding or printing need to write to the Center to obtain the information packet, which includes this year's set pieces. Directories are sold on a prepaid basis by the Center and are also available through certain distributors and bookstores (two local sources are the Stanford Bookstore and Computer Literacy); for the UK and Europe they can be ordered by sending a note to LisaWhistlecroft@lancaster.ac.uk. We have tried to be liberal about currency conversion but find checks drawn on Continental banks increasingly problematical. The prices vary with the source. From the Center the prices are $15 for 1989, $12 for 1988, and $10 for 1987; air postage is $7 to Europe and $9 to Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and the Middle East. Half of all questions asked in this forum have been considered in Computing in Musicology, and those who have read the publication have in many cases moved on to more demanding problems that are generally not considered in MRD. If you are a serious researcher in this field and you have not consulted CM to find out who else is working in the same area as you are or what the current capabilities of available music printing software are (we poll eighty vendors), you might save time and make new friends by reading CM. CM is edited by Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Questions concerning music printing contributions may be addressed to Edmund Correia at the Center. [ I strongly recommend this valuable publication to all our readers! I would also say that "more demanding problems" are very welcome in this digest ... - S ] ------------------------------ Date: 25 Apr 90 00:21:38 GMT From: Stephen Smoliar Subject: plainchant "grammars" To: music-research@prg Message-ID: <13065@venera.isi.edu> David Lewin was kind enough to provide me with details regarding the original Italian source in which Dom Paolo Ferretti gives a "context-free grammar" for centonized plainchant: Ferretti, Paolo Maria, _Estetica gregoriana_ (New York: Da Capo Press, 1977). Reprint of the 1934 edition published by Pontificio istituto di musica sacra, Rome. ========================================================================= USPS: Stephen Smoliar USC Information Sciences Institute 4676 Admiralty Way Suite 1001 Marina del Rey, California 90292-6695 Internet: smoliar@vaxa.isi.edu "By long custom, social discourse in Cambridge in intended to impart and only rarely to obtain information. People talk; it is not expected that anyone will listen. A respectful show of attention is all that is required until the listener takes over in his or her turn. No one has ever been known to repeat what he or she has heard at a party or other social gathering." John Kenneth Galbraith A TENURED PROFESSOR ------------------------------ Date: Sun, 22 Apr 90 21:20:29 EDT From: "Steven R. Newcomb" Subject: X3V1.8M: meeting notice (13th meeting) To: Music-Research Message-ID: <9004230120.AA08270@cmrp.cmr.uucp> X3V1.8M MUSIC IN INFORMATION PROCESSING STANDARDS (MIPS) COMMITTEE operating under the rules and procedures of the American National Standards Institute X3V1.8M Secretariat: c/o Larry Austin, President The Computer Music Association P. O. Box 1634 San Francisco, California 94101-1634 USA MEETING NOTICE, CALL FOR PAPERS, AND DRAFT AGENDA - THIRTEENTH MEETING MEETING NOTICE: Meeting times: Monday, June 11, 1990, 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Tuesday, June 12, 1990, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM. Wednesday, June 13, 1990, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Thursday, June 14, 1990, 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM. Meeting Host: Graphic Communications Association, Marion Elledge, Director, Information Technologies Meeting Location: Graphic Communications Association 1730 North Lynn Street Suite 604 Arlington, Virginia 22209-2085 703/841-8160 (fax 703/841-8178) WRITTEN CONTRIBUTIONS For various reasons, this meeting announcement and the mailing of papers is occurring simultaneously. Therefore, papers submitted now can not be mailed prior to the meeting. However, if you wish your paper(s) to be distributed at the meeting, please send them to Vice- chairman Steven R. Newcomb before June 5, 1990. His address is: Center for Music Research, School of Music, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2098 USA. In any case, your paper will be included in the next mailing. ABOUT OUR HOST, THE GRAPHIC COMMUNICATIONS ASSOCIATION (GCA) The Graphic Communications Association organizes several conferences each year intended to inform and serve the needs of the entire commun- ity of publishers and the systems makers who serve them. The GCA is particularly interested in promoting the development of powerful stan- dards for the representation of various kinds of documents, including both musical and hypermedia documents. NOTES TO NEW PARTICIPANTS/OBSERVERS: 1. Prospective members and observers are welcome at any time to par- ticipate in the current technical work of the committee. (You can be most effective in conveying your viewpoint if you can present it in the context of the current work -- in other words, please be familiar with X3V1.8M/SD-6, SD-7 and SD-8. If you don't have these, they can be obtained for a nominal charge from the X3V1.8M Secretariat.) New participants are also urged to obtain and read ISO 8879 (Standard Generalized Markup Language). ISO 8879 is not obtainable from the committee's secretariat; it can be obtained from Graphic Communications Association, 1730 North Lynn Street, Suite 604, Arlington, Virginia 22209-2085, for $67.50 (156 pp.). You should also obtain International Standard ISO 8879:1986/Amendment 1 from the same organization. 2. As usual, a portion of the second day's meeting (Tuesday) has been set aside for persons who wish to address the committee on topics of their own choosing, relating to the subject matter or methodology of the committee's work. 3. New participants are asked (but not required) to inform Charles Goldfarb (c/o Debbie Perez, IBM Almaden Research Center, 408/927-2577) or Steve Newcomb (Florida State University Center for Music Research, Tallahassee, FL 32306-2098, 904/644-5786) if they plan to attend. DRAFT AGENDA: Monday Administrative matters, including: Opening, Approval of Agenda, Attendance (including introduction of new participants). Review of new structure, titles, and contents of X3V1.8M/SD-6, 7, and 8. Technical work to include reviews of newly contributed documents. Tuesday Approval of Draft Minutes of the February, 1990 meeting, Chairman's Report, Related Activities & Liaisons, including con- tributions emanating from the Dexter group, Warner/Passport, etc. Technical work to include moving HyTime into the working draft phase. Special presentations (if any). Wednesday More work turning HyTime into a working draft. Thursday Disposition of written comments. Schedule of future meetings. Consideration of how hyperlinks can be used to allow SMDL to coexist more easily with DARMS and other data notations. Adjournment at 3:00 pm, followed by an Editors' meeting. ------------------------------ End of Music-Research Digest