Re: LilyPondXs

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Am 04.01.2013 um 12:16 schrieb Sven Axelsson <address@hidden>:

> On 4 January 2013 10:43, Han-Wen Nienhuys <address@hidden> wrote:
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>> From: Kristina Vuckovic <address@hidden>
>> Date: Fri, Dec 28, 2012 at 11:29 AM
>> Subject: LilyPondXs
>> To: address@hidden
>> 
>> 
>> Dear Mr. Nienhuys,
>> 
>> 
>> I am using software NooJ for natural language processing, and some
>> time ago I thought how nice it would be if we could use the same tool
>> for processing musical notes. I was thinking about the ways how to
>> introduce the note in a textual way and than I found your software
>> LilyPond (greta job!)– now, since I need the notes to be converted to
>> text, I was wondering if you have any plans in adding that to your
>> program i.e. is it possible to have a pdf file with notes that get
>> 'translated' into LilyPond notation (c2 d2...)?
> 
> Looking briefly at what NooJ seems to do, I assume you want to get
> access to a music corpus in Lilypond format to do some analysis on.
> Carlo has already suggested a possible way of translating scanned
> files to Lilypond notation. However, there is also the Mutopia Project
> (http://www.mutopiaproject.org) that contains quite a lot of music
> in Lilypond format. Maybe that can get you started?
Or maybe you are looking for a toolkit for computer-aided musicology?  Then you 
should have a look at http://mit.edu/music21/.  music21 can import and export 
quite a few musical data formats. Unfortunately it can't parse LilyPond but the 
music21 corpus comes with a large collection of scores in different formats.  
Provided you have some familiarity with Python you can analyze, visualize and 
transform musical data...

hth
patrick