About This Class and Your Instructor
Video 0: Overview of 21M.383 Computational Music Theory for OCW Learners
As you proceed through this class, you’ll be unlocking features of music21, but what exactly is music21, and what do people do with it? Don’t trust me on this—I wrote it, so I’m biased.
Please read this review of music21 by Dmitri Tymoczko, a professor of music at Princeton. His name will return on the first PSet. I agree with some of Tymoczko’s review, some I don’t, and some I agreed with at the time he wrote, but now it’s out of date.
Dmitri Tymoczko, “Review of Michael Cuthbert, Music21: a Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology” Music Theory Online, vol. 1, no. 3, Society for Music Theory, August 2013.
Link: music21 Documentation
Link: Open music21 Setup in a New Window
