partitura: A Python Package for Handling Symbolic Musical Data
Maarten Grachten, Carlos Cancino-Chac\'on, Thassilo Gadermaier
TL;DR
partitura is an open-source Python package that enables detailed handling of symbolic musical notation, offering more comprehensive features than traditional MIDI-based approaches.
Contribution
It introduces a new Python tool for processing richly structured symbolic music data, expanding capabilities beyond MIDI-inspired formats.
Findings
Supports complex musical structures
Enhances music data analysis and manipulation
Open source availability on GitHub
Abstract
This demo paper introduces partitura, a Python package for handling symbolic musical information. The principal aim of this package is to handle richly structured musical information as conveyed by modern staff music notation. It provides a much wider range of possibilities to deal with music than the more reductive (but very common) piano roll-oriented approach inspired by the MIDI standard. The package is an open source project and is available on GitHub.
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Taxonomy
TopicsMusic and Audio Processing · Music Technology and Sound Studies · Computational Physics and Python Applications