3 Lily Literature -- reading on music engraving/typesetting/etc.
7 A list of resources on music printing/writing and engraving. Please
8 note that don't have access to most material.
10 [What I do know, I've commented inside brackets. They are just my
11 personal comments, not to be taken too seriously]
13 =head2 Music engraving: references
15 Helene Wanske. ``Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum
16 EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz'', Schott-Verlag, Mainz 1988.ISBN 3-7957-2886-x.
18 [I. A very thorough overview of engraving practices of various
19 craftsmen. It includes detailed specs of characters, dimensions etc.
20 II. a thorough overview of a (by now antiquated) automated system
21 called Ikarus; EDV Means e(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung),
22 electronic data processing HWN]
24 Maxwell Weaner and Walter Boelke, Standard Music Notation Practice,
25 revised edition by Arnold Broido and Daniel Dorff. Music Publisher's
26 Association of the United States Inc., 1993.
28 Ted Ross. ``Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing''
29 (3rd edition). Hansen House, Miami Beach, FLorida.
31 [This is about I<engraving> i.e. professional music typesetting, and
32 includes some good spacing tables MB]
34 Gardner Read. ``Modern Rhythmic Notation.'' Indiana University Press,
37 Gardner Read. ``Music Notation'' (2nd edition). Taplinger Publishing,
40 [This is as close to the ``standard'' reference work for music
41 notation issues as one is likely to get. MB]
43 MPA. Standard music notation specifications for computer programming.
46 [Pamphlet explaining some fine points in music font design HWN]
48 =head2 Notation with computers
50 Donald Byrd. ``Music Notation by Computer''. Dissertation Indiana
53 Donald Byrd. ``A System for Music Printing by Computer.'' Computers
54 and the Humanities, 8 (1974), 161-72.
56 Leland Smith. ``Editing and Printing Music by Computer.'' Journal of
57 Music Theory, 17 (1973), 292-309.
59 [If I remember correctly, this was concerned more with an input
60 language than with the typography. SP.]
62 David A Gomberg. ``A Computer-Oriented System for Music Printing.''
63 Dissertation Washington University. 1975.
65 Walter B Hewlett. and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. ``Directory of Computer
66 Assisted Research in Musicology''. Menlo Park, CA: Center for Computer
67 Assisted Research in the Humanities.
69 [Annual editions since 1985, many containing surveys of music
70 typesetting technology. SP]
72 Wael A. Hegazy and John S. Gourlay. ``Optimal line breaking in music''. In
73 Document Manipulation and Typography, J.C. van Vliet (ed) 1988.
75 [This generalizes TeX's breaking algorithm to music HWN]
77 David A. Gomberg; ``A Computer-oriented System for Music Printing.''
78 Computers and the Humanities, Vol.11, pp 63-80.
80 John S. Gourlay. ``Spacing a Line of Music,'' Technical Report
81 OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR35, Department of Computer and Information Science,
82 The Ohio State University, 1987.
84 John S. Gourlay, A. Parrish, D. Roush, F. Sola, Y. Tien. ``Computer
85 Formatting of Music,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-2/87-TR3, Department
86 of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
88 Wael A. Hegazy. ``On the Implementation of the MusiCopy Language
89 Processor,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR34, Department of
90 Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
92 A. Parrish and John S. Gourlay. ``Computer Formatting of Musical
93 Simultaneities,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR28, Department of
94 Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
96 D. Roush. ``Music Formatting Guidelines,'' Technical Report
97 OSU-CISRC-3/88-TR10, Department of Computer and Information Science,
98 The Ohio State University, 1988.
100 F. Sola. ``Computer Design of Musical Slurs, Ties and Phrase Marks,''
101 Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR32, Department of Computer and
102 Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
104 F. Sola and D. Roush. ``Design of Musical Beams,'' Technical Report
105 OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR30, Department of Computer and Information Science,
106 The Ohio State University, 1987.
108 John. S. Gourlay. ``A language for music printing'', Communications
109 of the ACM, Vol. 29(5), 388--401, 1986.
111 [This paper describes a vapourware music setting system and an input
112 language to go with it. HWN]
114 Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken, ``The Lime Music Editor: A Diagram
115 Editor Involving Complex Translations'', Software Practice and
116 Experience, Vol. 24, No. 3, March 1994, pp. 289-306.
118 [A description of various conversions, decisions and issues relating
119 to this interactive editor HWN]
121 Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein, ``The Tilia Music Representation:
122 Extensibility, Abstraction, and Notation Contexts for the Lime Music
123 Editor'', Computer Music Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1993, pp. 43-58
125 [A description of Lime internals (which resemble older (before
126 0.0.68pre) LilyPond data structures somewhat) HWN]
128 Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein, ``A New Algorithm for Horizontal
129 Spacing of Printed Music'', International Computer Music Conference,
130 Banff, Sept. 1995, pp. 118-119.
132 [This describes an algorithm which uses springs between adjacent
133 columns. This algorithm is a "subclass" of the LilyPond algorithm. HWN]
135 Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken, ``Justification of Printed Music'',
136 Communications of the ACM, VolJ34, No. 3, March 1991, pp. 88-99.
138 [This paper provides a shallow overview of the algorithm used in LIME
139 for spacing individual lines. HWN]
141 Gary M. Rader. ``Creating Printed Music Automatically''. Computer Vol
142 29(6), June 1996, pp 61--69.
144 [Describes a system called MusicEase, and explains that it uses
145 "constraints" (which go unexplained) to automatically position various
148 Stephen Dowland Page. ``Computer Tools for Music Information
149 Retrieval''. Dissertation University of Oxford, 1988.
151 [Don't ask Stephen for a copy. Write to the Bodleian Library, Oxford,
152 or to the British Library, instead. SP]
154 Ren\'e Roelofs. ``Een Geautomatiseerd Systeem voor het Afdrukken van
155 Muziek'' afstudeerscriptie Bestuurlijke informatica, no 45327, Erasmus
156 universiteit Rotterdam, 1991. (``An automated system for printing
157 music'' Master's Thesis Managerial Computer Science.)
159 [This thesis describes a simplistic (monophonic) typesetting system,
160 and focuses on the breaking algorithm, which is taken from Hegazy &
163 Miguel Filgueiras and Jos\'e Paulo Leal. ``Representation and
164 manipulation of music documents in SceX''. Electronic Publishing,
165 vol. 6 (4), 507--518, 1993.
167 Eric Foxley, Music --- A language for typesetting music scores.
168 Software --- Practice and Experience, Vol. 17(8), 485--502, 1987.
170 [A paper on a TROFF preprocessor to typeset music. The output shown is
171 not very sophisticated, and contains some typographical atrocities HWN]
173 Miguel Filgueiras, ``Implementing a Symbolic Music Processing
174 System''. LIACC, Universidade do Porto, 1996; submitted.
176 Miguel Filgueiras, ``Some Music Typesetting Algorithms''. LIACC,
177 Universidade do Porto, forthcoming.
179 =head2 Engraving: further reading
181 Herbert Chlapik. ``Die Praxis des Notengraphikers''. Doblinger, 1987.
182 ISBN 3-9000 035-96-2.
184 [An clearly written book for the casually interested reader. It shows
185 some of the conventions and difficulties in printing music HWN]
187 The University of Colorado Music Engraving page.
188 http://obenamots.cc.colorado.edu/Musicpress/engraving.html
190 Anthony Donato. Preparing Music Manuscript. Englewood Cliffs:
193 Donemus. ``Uitgeven van muziek''. Donemus Amsterdam, 1900
195 George Heussenstamm. The Norton Manual of Music Notation. New York:
198 Erdhard Karkoshka. ``Notation in New Music. Trans. Ruth
199 Koenig''. Praeger Publishers, New York, 1972. Out of print.
201 C. Roemer, The Art of Music Copying. Roerick music co., Sherman Oaks
204 Glen Rosecrans. Music Notation Primer. New York: Passantino, 1979.
206 Kurt Stone. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century. New York: Norton,
214 http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~strandh/Gsharp
216 Tablature: http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~phacket2/guitar/tabfaq.html
219 Peter S. Langston, ``Unix music tools at Bellcore''. Software ---
220 Practice and Experience, Vol. 20(S1), S1/47--S1/61, 1990.
222 [This paper deals with some command-line tools for music editing and
223 playback. It doesn't mention notation issues, but does come with the
224 grand idea (not) of using music to monitor complex systems. Imagine
225 your nuclear plant supervisor to use AC/DC for checking the reactor HWN]
227 Cindy Grande, NIFF6a Notation Interchange File Format. Grande
228 Software Inc., 1995. ftp://blackbox.cartah.washington.edu/pub/
230 [Specs for NIFF, a comprehensive but binary (yuk) format for notation HWN]
232 Alexander Brinkman, ``PASCAL Programming for Music Research''. The
233 University of Chicago Press, 1990.
237 References contributed by Han-Wen Nienhuys, Miguel Filgueiras, Mark
238 Basinski, Dorothea Blostein, Stephen Page, Jan Nieuwenhuizen.
240 This should really be redone in BibTeX