Summary of Alan Ruttenberg's MSc

Title
Optical Reading of Typeset Music

Date
18 January 1991

Abstract

This thesis describes a program which translates a digitize image of a music score into a representation more amenable to computer manipulation of the musical content. I aim for a representation in which the information manifest on a sheet of music is easily accessible, information such as: the key signature, the pitches and durations of notes, and dynamic markings associated with parts of the score. The program is designed to read music printed by a single publisher, in a single musical font. Throughout the thesis I will comment on the issues and feasibility of extending this work to other fonts and publishers. This work is done for the most part using a Connection Machine, a data parallel computer.

Supervisor
Marvin Minsky