RE: Music Transcription
- From: "Homme, James" <james.homme@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 14:55:43 -0400
Hi,
What's the difference between this and Braille music itself?
Thanks.
Jim
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Subject: Re: Music Transcription
Couldn't get FreeDots to work properly, but I can't remember now what
exactly the problem was. It is something to investigate.
Another interesting project is Contrapunctus which has a free Braille
Music Markup Language (BMML) viewer that is fully compatible with JAWS
-- has a set of scripts that gets installed with the viewer. The viewer
is done in wxPython and is fast and responsive. With the viewer you can
hear the score played in MIDI and go through the score note by note.
It's a very nice viewer.
There is a Braille music archive associated with the project, and there
is also a tool for authoring BMML from more sight oriented score
formats, but that tool wasn't easily available and I think you could
only get it if you were going to contribute scores to the archive.
I got the impression middle of last year when I researched all of this,
that it's not just a case of taking a Music XML file and throwing it at
a converter to get a Braille Music XML file. Looks to me like you have
to put in extra effort to get a useful Braille score.
http://contrapunctus.it/braille_music_reader
On 7/31/2011 9:33 AM, John J. Boyer wrote:
> This is good news. I will look at it for BrailleBlaster. I'll take the
> core and provide a BrailleBlaster GUI using SWT.
>
> John
>
> On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 12:58:02AM -0400, James Lee wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> There's a free, open source Braille music transcription program
>> written in Java called freedots.
>> http://delysid.org/freedots.html
>> Music XML works great, and it's supported by over 140 music applications.
>> The two major music scoring programs are Sibelius and Finale, and both
>> of them supports Music XML. Sibelius could only import music XML, and it
>> needed a plugin called Dolet to export, but not anymore. The latest
>> Sibelius 7 just got a feature to export Music XML. Also the latest
>> Sibelius got built-in accessibility features out of the box.
>> It's little annoying because the new GUI is based on qt4, but I think
>> it's pretty promising. It's far more accessible than any other
>> application with QT4 GUI I've used.
>>
>> JL
>>
>> On 7/5/2011 2:17 PM, John J. Boyer wrote:
>>> Jim,
>>>
>>> You can get very good results by just typing music.xml in Google.
>>> recordare.com has a lot of stuff, including the specification. Google
>>> takes you right to it.
>>>
>>> John
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 01:00:02PM -0400, James Homme wrote:
>>>> Hi John,
>>>> The last time I attempted to check, Music XML wasn't completed, or
>>>> whatever the term is for finalized. Do you know where to read the
>>>> specification might be? I have heard that the two leading score creation
>>>> programs are adopting Music XML now.
>>>>
>>>> Jim
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> [mailto:programmingblind-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John J. Boyer
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2011 12:09 PM
>>>> To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Subject: Music Transcription
>>>>
>>>> In answer to Jim Homme's question about music transcription, we will use
>>>> music.xml or something similar. The transcription will actually be done
>>>> by liblouisutdml, which is written in C so that it can be incorporated
>>>> into various applications. BrailleBlaster is the application I am
>>>> working on. You could say that liblouisutdml is a braille transcription
>>>> engine that could be put into different types of cars. BrailleBlaster is
>>>> the showcase car.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
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