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-
-Lily Literature -- reading on music engraving/typesetting/etc.
-
-=head1 DESCRIPTION
-
-A list of resources on music printing/writing and engraving. Please
-note that don't have access to most material.
-
-[Personal comments appear in brackets. What I (HWN) know, I've
-commented myself. They are just my personal comments, not to be taken
-too seriously]
-
-=head2 Music engraving: references
-
-Helene Wanske. ``Musiknotation --- Von der Syntax des Notenstichs zum
-EDV-gesteuerten Notensatz'', Schott-Verlag, Mainz 1988.ISBN 3-7957-2886-x.
-
-[I. A very thorough overview of engraving practices of various
-craftsmen. It includes detailed specs of characters, dimensions etc.
-II. a thorough overview of a (by now antiquated) automated system
-called Ikarus; EDV Means e(lektronischen) D(aten)v(erarbeitung),
-electronic data processing HWN]
-
-Maxwell Weaner and Walter Boelke, Standard Music Notation Practice,
-revised edition by Arnold Broido and Daniel Dorff. Music Publisher's
-Association of the United States Inc., 1993.
-
-Ted Ross. ``Teach yourself the art of music engraving and processing''
-(3rd edition). Hansen House, Miami Beach, FLorida.
-
-[This is about I<engraving> i.e. professional music typesetting, and
-includes some good spacing tables MB]
-
-Gardner Read. ``Modern Rhythmic Notation.'' Indiana University Press,
-1978.
-
-Gardner Read. ``Music Notation'' (2nd edition). Taplinger Publishing,
-New York.
-
-[This is as close to the ``standard'' reference work for music
-notation issues as one is likely to get. MB]
-
-K. Hader. ``Aus der Werkstatt eines Notenstechers'' Waldheim--Eberle
-Verlag, Vienna 1948
-
-MPA. Standard music notation specifications for computer programming.
-December 1996
-
-[Pamphlet explaining some fine points in music font design HWN]
-
-
-=head2 Notation with computers
-
-Donald Byrd. ``Music Notation by Computer''. Dissertation Indiana
-University, 1985.
-
-Donald Byrd. ``A System for Music Printing by Computer.'' Computers
-and the Humanities, 8 (1974), 161-72.
-
-Leland Smith. ``Editing and Printing Music by Computer.'' Journal of
-Music Theory, 17 (1973), 292-309.
-
-[If I remember correctly, this was concerned more with an input
-language than with the typography. SP.]
-
-David A Gomberg. ``A Computer-Oriented System for Music Printing.''
-Dissertation Washington University. 1975.
-
-Walter B Hewlett. and Eleanor Selfridge-Field. ``Directory of Computer
-Assisted Research in Musicology''. Menlo Park, CA: Center for Computer
-Assisted Research in the Humanities.
-
-[Annual editions since 1985, many containing surveys of music
-typesetting technology. SP]
-
-David A. Gomberg; ``A Computer-oriented System for Music Printing.''
-Computers and the Humanities, Vol.11, pp 63-80.
-
-John S. Gourlay. ``Spacing a Line of Music,'' Technical Report
-OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR35, Department of Computer and Information Science,
-The Ohio State University, 1987.
-
-[Algorithm for generating spacing in one line of (polyphonic) music,
-tailored for use with MusiCopy. LilyPond uses a variant of it (as of
-pl 76) HWN]
-
-Allen Parish, Wael A. Hegazy, John S. Gourlay, Dean K. Roush and
-F. Javier Sola. ``MusiCopy: An automated Music Formatting System''.
-Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR29, Department of Computer and
-Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
-
-[A brief overview of MusiCopy HWN]
-
-John S. Gourlay, A. Parrish, D. Roush, F. Sola, Y. Tien. ``Computer
-Formatting of Music,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-2/87-TR3, Department
-of Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
-
-[This paper discusses the development of algorithms for the formatting
-of musical scores (from abstract). It also appeared at PROTEXT III,
-Ireland 1986]
-
-Wael A. Hegazy. ``On the Implementation of the MusiCopy Language
-Processor,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR34, Department of
-Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
-
-[Describes the "parser" which converts MusiCopy MDL to MusiCopy
-Simultaneities & columns HWN]
-
-Wael A. Hegazy and John S. Gourlay. ``Optimal line breaking in
-music''. Technical Report OSU-CISRC-8/87-TR33, Department of Computer
-and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987
-
-[This generalizes TeX's breaking algorithm to music. It also appeared in
-Document Manipulation and Typography, J.C. van Vliet (ed) 1988. HWN]
-
-Dean K. Roush. ``Using MusiCopy''. Technical Report
-OSU-CISRC-18/87-TR31, Department of Computer and Information Science,
-The Ohio State University, 1987
-
-[User manual of MusiCopy. Includes an impressive example piece. HWN.]
-
-A. Parrish and John S. Gourlay. ``Computer Formatting of Musical
-Simultaneities,'' Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR28, Department of
-Computer and Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
-
-[Placement of balls, stems, dots which occur at the same moment
-("Simultaneity") HWN]
-
-D. Roush. ``Music Formatting Guidelines,'' Technical Report
-OSU-CISRC-3/88-TR10, Department of Computer and Information Science,
-The Ohio State University, 1988.
-
-[Rules on formatting music formulated for use in computers HWN]
-
-F. Sola. ``Computer Design of Musical Slurs, Ties and Phrase Marks,''
-Technical Report OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR32, Department of Computer and
-Information Science, The Ohio State University, 1987.
-
-[Overview of a procedure for generating slurs HWN]
-
-F. Sola and D. Roush. ``Design of Musical Beams,'' Technical Report
-OSU-CISRC-10/87-TR30, Department of Computer and Information Science,
-The Ohio State University, 1987.
-
-[Calculating beam slopes HWN]
-
-John. S. Gourlay. ``A language for music printing'', Communications
-of the ACM, Vol. 29(5), 388--401, 1986.
-
-[This paper describes the MusiCopy musicsetting system and an input
-language to go with it. HWN]
-
-Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken, ``The Lime Music Editor: A Diagram
-Editor Involving Complex Translations'', Software Practice and
-Experience, Vol. 24, No. 3, March 1994, pp. 289-306.
-
-[A description of various conversions, decisions and issues relating
-to this interactive editor HWN]
-
-Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein, ``The Tilia Music Representation:
-Extensibility, Abstraction, and Notation Contexts for the Lime Music
-Editor'', Computer Music Journal, Vol. 17, No. 3, 1993, pp. 43-58
-
-[A description of Lime internals (which resemble older (before
-0.0.68pre) LilyPond data structures somewhat) HWN]
-
-Lippold Haken and Dorothea Blostein, ``A New Algorithm for Horizontal
-Spacing of Printed Music'', International Computer Music Conference,
-Banff, Sept. 1995, pp. 118-119.
-
-[This describes an algorithm which uses springs between adjacent
-columns. This algorithm is a "subclass" of the LilyPond algorithm. HWN]
-
-Dorothea Blostein and Lippold Haken, ``Justification of Printed Music'',
-Communications of the ACM, VolJ34, No. 3, March 1991, pp. 88-99.
-
-[This paper provides a shallow overview of the algorithm used in LIME
-for spacing individual lines. HWN]
-
-Gary M. Rader. ``Creating Printed Music Automatically''. Computer Vol
-29(6), June 1996, pp 61--69.
-
-[Describes a system called MusicEase, and explains that it uses
-"constraints" (which go unexplained) to automatically position various
-elements. HWN]
-
-Stephen Dowland Page. ``Computer Tools for Music Information
-Retrieval''. Dissertation University of Oxford, 1988.
-
-[Don't ask Stephen for a copy. Write to the Bodleian Library, Oxford,
-or to the British Library, instead. SP]
-
-Ren\'e Roelofs. ``Een Geautomatiseerd Systeem voor het Afdrukken van
-Muziek'' afstudeerscriptie Bestuurlijke informatica, no 45327, Erasmus
-universiteit Rotterdam, 1991. (``An automated system for printing
-music'' Master's Thesis Managerial Computer Science.)
-
-[This dutch thesis describes a simplistic (monophonic) typesetting system,
-and focuses on the breaking algorithm, which is taken from Hegazy &
-Gourlay HWN]
-
-Miguel Filgueiras and Jos\'e Paulo Leal. ``Representation and
-manipulation of music documents in SceX''. Electronic Publishing,
-vol. 6 (4), 507--518, 1993.
-
-Eric Foxley, Music --- A language for typesetting music scores.
-Software --- Practice and Experience, Vol. 17(8), 485--502, 1987.
-
-[A paper on a TROFF preprocessor to typeset music. The output shown is
-not very sophisticated, and contains some typographical atrocities HWN]
-
-Miguel Filgueiras, ``Implementing a Symbolic Music Processing
-System''. LIACC, Universidade do Porto, 1996; submitted.
-
-Miguel Filgueiras, ``Some Music Typesetting Algorithms''. LIACC,
-Universidade do Porto, forthcoming.
-
-=head2 Engraving: further reading
-
-Herbert Chlapik. ``Die Praxis des Notengraphikers''. Doblinger, 1987.
-ISBN 3-9000 035-96-2.
-
-[An clearly written book for the casually interested reader. It shows
-some of the conventions and difficulties in printing music HWN]
-
-The University of Colorado Music Engraving page.
-http://obenamots.cc.colorado.edu/Musicpress/engraving.html
-
-Anthony Donato. Preparing Music Manuscript. Englewood Cliffs:
-Prentice-Hall, 1963.
-
-Donemus. ``Uitgeven van muziek''. Donemus Amsterdam, 1900
-
-George Heussenstamm. The Norton Manual of Music Notation. New York:
-Norton, 1987.
-
-Erdhard Karkoshka. ``Notation in New Music. Trans. Ruth
-Koenig''. Praeger Publishers, New York, 1972. Out of print.
-
-C. Roemer, The Art of Music Copying. Roerick music co., Sherman Oaks
-(CA), 1973.
-
-Glen Rosecrans. Music Notation Primer. New York: Passantino, 1979.
-
-Kurt Stone. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century. New York: Norton,
-1980.
-
-
-=head2 Other stuff
-
-
-More on GNU Music:
-http://dept-info.labri.u-bordeaux.fr/~strandh/Gsharp
-
-Peter S. Langston, ``Unix music tools at Bellcore''. Software ---
-Practice and Experience, Vol. 20(S1), S1/47--S1/61, 1990.
-
-[This paper deals with some command-line tools for music editing and
-playback. It doesn't mention notation issues, but does come with the
-grand idea (not) of using music to monitor complex systems. Imagine
-your nuclear plant supervisor to use AC/DC for checking the reactor HWN]
-
-
-=head2 File formats
-
-Tablature: http://wabakimi.carleton.ca/~phacket2/guitar/tabfaq.html
-
-Cindy Grande, NIFF6a Notation Interchange File Format. Grande
-Software Inc., 1995. ftp://blackbox.cartah.washington.edu/pub/,
-http://www.jtauber.com/music/encoding/niff/
-
-[Specs for NIFF, a comprehensive but binary (yuk) format for notation HWN]
-
-SMDL, Standard Musical Description Language
-ftp://ftp.ornl.gov/pub/sgml/wg8/smdl/10743.pdf
-
-MPDL,
-
-HMSL, Hierarchical Music Structured Language,
-
-DARMS,
-
-enigma,
-
-SCORE,
-
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-=head1 AUTHORS
-
-References and comments contributed by Han-Wen Nienhuys (HWN), Miguel
-Filgueiras, Mark Basinski (MB), Dorothea Blostein, Stephen Page (SP),
-Jan Nieuwenhuizen, Peter Kerr.
-
-This should really be redone in BibTeX
-
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