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 [Personal comments appear in brackets. What I (HWN) know, I've
11 commented myself. They are just my personal comments, not to be taken
14 =head2 Music engraving: references
16 Helene Wanske. ``Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum
17 EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz'', Schott-Verlag, Mainz 1988.ISBN 3-7957-2886-x.
19 [I. A very thorough overview of engraving practices of various
20 craftsmen. It includes detailed specs of characters, dimensions etc.
21 II. a thorough overview of a (by now antiquated) automated system
22 called Ikarus; EDV Means e(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung),
23 electronic data processing HWN]
25 Maxwell Weaner and Walter Boelke, Standard Music Notation Practice,
26 revised edition by Arnold Broido and Daniel Dorff. Music Publisher's
27 Association of the United States Inc., 1993.
29 Ted Ross. ``Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing''
30 (3rd edition). Hansen House, Miami Beach, FLorida.
32 [This is about I<engraving> i.e. professional music typesetting, and
33 includes some good spacing tables MB]
35 Gardner Read. ``Modern Rhythmic Notation.'' Indiana University Press,
38 Gardner Read. ``Music Notation'' (2nd edition). Taplinger Publishing,
41 [This is as close to the ``standard'' reference work for music
42 notation issues as one is likely to get. MB]
44 Karl Hader. ``Aus der Werkstatt eines Notenstechers'' Waldheim--Eberle
47 [Hader was the chief-engraver of the Waldheim-Eberle music publishers.
48 This book contains the most important rules on engraving (according to
51 MPA. Standard music notation specifications for computer programming.
54 [Pamphlet explaining some fine points in music font design HWN]
56 D. Roush. ``Music Formatting Guidelines,'' Technical Report
57 OSU-CISRC-3/88-TR10, Department of Computer and Information Science,
58 The Ohio State University, 1988.
60 [Rules on formatting music formulated for use in computers HWN]
62 =head2 Notation with computers
64 Donald Byrd. ``Music Notation by Computer''. Dissertation Indiana
67 Donald Byrd. ``A System for Music Printing by Computer.'' Computers
68 and the Humanities, 8 (1974), 161-72.
70 Leland Smith. ``Editing and Printing Music by Computer.'' Journal of
71 Music Theory, 17 (1973), 292-309.
73 [If I remember correctly, this was concerned more with an input
74 language than with the typography. SP.]
76 David A Gomberg. ``A Computer-Oriented System for Music Printing.''
77 Dissertation Washington University. 1975.
79 Walter B Hewlett. and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. ``Directory of Computer
80 Assisted Research in Musicology''. Menlo Park, CA: Center for Computer
81 Assisted Research in the Humanities.
83 [Annual editions since 1985, many containing surveys of music
84 typesetting technology. SP]
86 David A. Gomberg; ``A Computer-oriented System for Music Printing.''
87 Computers and the Humanities, Vol.11, pp 63-80.
89 John S. Gourlay. ``Spacing a Line of Music,'' Technical Report
90 OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR35, Department of Computer and Information Science,
91 The Ohio State University, 1987.
93 [Algorithm for generating spacing in one line of (polyphonic) music,
94 tailored for use with MusiCopy. LilyPond uses a variant of it (as of
97 Allen Parish, Wael A. Hegazy, John S. Gourlay, Dean K. Roush and
98 F. Javier Sola. ``MusiCopy: An automated Music Formatting System''.
99 Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR29, Department of Computer and
100 Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
102 [A brief overview of MusiCopy HWN]
104 John S. Gourlay, A. Parrish, D. Roush, F. Sola, Y. Tien. ``Computer
105 Formatting of Music,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-2/87-TR3, Department
106 of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
108 [This paper discusses the development of algorithms for the formatting
109 of musical scores (from abstract). It also appeared at PROTEXT III,
112 Wael A. Hegazy. ``On the Implementation of the MusiCopy Language
113 Processor,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR34, Department of
114 Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
116 [Describes the "parser" which converts MusiCopy MDL to MusiCopy
117 Simultaneities & columns HWN]
119 Wael A. Hegazy and John S. Gourlay. ``Optimal line breaking in
120 music''. Technical Report OSU-CISRC-8/87-TR33, Department of Computer
121 and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987
123 [This generalizes TeX's breaking algorithm to music. It also appeared in
124 Document Manipulation and Typography, J.C. van Vliet (ed) 1988. HWN]
126 Dean K. Roush. ``Using MusiCopy''. Technical Report
127 OSU-CISRC-18/87-TR31, Department of Computer and Information Science,
128 The Ohio State University, 1987
130 [User manual of MusiCopy. Includes an impressive example piece. HWN.]
132 A. Parrish and John S. Gourlay. ``Computer Formatting of Musical
133 Simultaneities,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR28, Department of
134 Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
136 [Placement of balls, stems, dots which occur at the same moment
137 ("Simultaneity") HWN]
139 F. Sola. ``Computer Design of Musical Slurs, Ties and Phrase Marks,''
140 Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR32, Department of Computer and
141 Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
143 [Overview of a procedure for generating slurs HWN]
145 F. Sola and D. Roush. ``Design of Musical Beams,'' Technical Report
146 OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR30, Department of Computer and Information Science,
147 The Ohio State University, 1987.
149 [Calculating beam slopes HWN]
151 John. S. Gourlay. ``A language for music printing'', Communications
152 of the ACM, Vol. 29(5), 388--401, 1986.
154 [This paper describes the MusiCopy musicsetting system and an input
155 language to go with it. HWN]
157 Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken, ``The Lime Music Editor: A Diagram
158 Editor Involving Complex Translations'', Software Practice and
159 Experience, Vol. 24, No. 3, March 1994, pp. 289-306.
161 [A description of various conversions, decisions and issues relating
162 to this interactive editor HWN]
164 Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein, ``The Tilia Music Representation:
165 Extensibility, Abstraction, and Notation Contexts for the Lime Music
166 Editor'', Computer Music Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1993, pp. 43-58
168 [A description of Lime internals (which resemble older (before
169 0.0.68pre) LilyPond data structures somewhat) HWN]
171 Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein, ``A New Algorithm for Horizontal
172 Spacing of Printed Music'', International Computer Music Conference,
173 Banff, Sept. 1995, pp. 118-119.
175 [This describes an algorithm which uses springs between adjacent
176 columns. This algorithm is a "subclass" of the LilyPond algorithm. HWN]
178 Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken, ``Justification of Printed Music'',
179 Communications of the ACM, VolJ34, No. 3, March 1991, pp. 88-99.
181 [This paper provides a shallow overview of the algorithm used in LIME
182 for spacing individual lines. HWN]
184 Gary M. Rader. ``Creating Printed Music Automatically''. Computer Vol
185 29(6), June 1996, pp 61--69.
187 [Describes a system called MusicEase, and explains that it uses
188 "constraints" (which go unexplained) to automatically position various
191 Stephen Dowland Page. ``Computer Tools for Music Information
192 Retrieval''. Dissertation University of Oxford, 1988.
194 [Don't ask Stephen for a copy. Write to the Bodleian Library, Oxford,
195 or to the British Library, instead. SP]
197 Ren\'e Roelofs. ``Een Geautomatiseerd Systeem voor het Afdrukken van
198 Muziek'' afstudeerscriptie Bestuurlijke informatica, no 45327, Erasmus
199 universiteit Rotterdam, 1991. (``An automated system for printing
200 music'' Master's Thesis Managerial Computer Science.)
202 [This dutch thesis describes a simplistic (monophonic) typesetting system,
203 and focuses on the breaking algorithm, which is taken from Hegazy &
206 Miguel Filgueiras and Jos\'e Paulo Leal. ``Representation and
207 manipulation of music documents in SceX''. Electronic Publishing,
208 vol. 6 (4), 507--518, 1993.
210 Eric Foxley, Music --- A language for typesetting music scores.
211 Software --- Practice and Experience, Vol. 17(8), 485--502, 1987.
213 [A paper on a TROFF preprocessor to typeset music. The output shown is
214 not very sophisticated, and contains some typographical atrocities HWN]
216 Miguel Filgueiras, ``Implementing a Symbolic Music Processing
217 System''. LIACC, Universidade do Porto, 1996; submitted.
219 Miguel Filgueiras, ``Some Music Typesetting Algorithms''. LIACC,
220 Universidade do Porto, forthcoming.
222 =head2 Engraving: further reading
224 Herbert Chlapik. ``Die Praxis des Notengraphikers''. Doblinger, 1987.
225 ISBN 3-9000 035-96-2.
227 [An clearly written book for the casually interested reader. It shows
228 some of the conventions and difficulties in printing music HWN]
230 The University of Colorado Music Engraving page.
231 http://obenamots.cc.colorado.edu/Musicpress/engraving.html
233 Anthony Donato. Preparing Music Manuscript. Englewood Cliffs:
236 Donemus. ``Uitgeven van muziek''. Donemus Amsterdam, 1900
238 George Heussenstamm. The Norton Manual of Music Notation. New York:
241 Erdhard Karkoshka. ``Notation in New Music. Trans. Ruth
242 Koenig''. Praeger Publishers, New York, 1972. Out of print.
244 C. Roemer, The Art of Music Copying. Roerick music co., Sherman Oaks
247 Glen Rosecrans. Music Notation Primer. New York: Passantino, 1979.
249 Kurt Stone. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century. New York: Norton,
256 Peter S. Langston, ``Unix music tools at Bellcore''. Software ---
257 Practice and Experience, Vol. 20(S1), S1/47--S1/61, 1990.
259 [This paper deals with some command-line tools for music editing and
260 playback. It doesn't mention notation issues, but does come with the
261 grand idea (not) of using music to monitor complex systems. Imagine
262 your nuclear plant supervisor to use AC/DC for checking the reactor HWN]
267 Tablature: http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~phacket2/guitar/tabfaq.html
269 Cindy Grande, NIFF6a Notation Interchange File Format. Grande
270 Software Inc., 1995. ftp://blackbox.cartah.washington.edu/pub/,
271 http://www.jtauber.com/music/encoding/niff/
273 [Specs for NIFF, a comprehensive but binary (yuk) format for notation HWN]
275 SMDL, Standard Musical Description Language,
276 ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/wg8/smdl/10743.pdf. ISO/IEC DIS 10743.
278 [An ISO defined SGML language. A much more thorough treatment of music
279 definition than Mudela (but not suited for manual entry). It deals
280 with notation and perfomance issues by (basically) saying "You can
281 embed a MIDI or NIFF file" (sic) HWN]
285 HMSL, Hierarchical Music Structured Language,
296 References and comments contributed by Han-Wen Nienhuys (HWN), Miguel
297 Filgueiras, Mark Basinski (MB), Dorothea Blostein, Stephen Page (SP),
298 Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Peter Kerr.
300 This should really be redone in BibTeX