IEEE PAR 1599 First Draft Submitted, May 2005 Web Page

Technical Highlights of the Standard: general, structural, logical, notational, performance and audio layers NEW Spine and Logically Organized Symbols Provision for representing all musical events and features of Common Western Notation Extensibility, backward compatibility Remember: Music is not just sound! No WAV, MP3, ….

Relationship between Symbolic Music Information and Audio Layers Figure 4: Relationships between SMI layers and between SMI and Source Material.

MusicXML, MEI, SMDL, Hy Time, SMIL, MusiXML, MusiCat & MDL, WEDELMUSIC Format, MNML, MML, MuTaTeD, MusicML, ChordML New Standard IEEE1599: Existing standards (proposed or de-facto):

DVD with opera: play, libretto, score,sound, alternative arias, singers, theater Jazz Band: harmonic grid, identification of soloists, alternate renditions Piece with a program or story: Four Seasons, Peter And the Wolf, Carnival Of the Animals Indian Classical Music: mode of the raga African Drumming, Cuban guaguanco: time relationships Perservation of the Cultural Heritage, in symbolic form Examples Fugue: show how the theme reappears in the different voices

Demo. Simple browser showing Symbolic Musical Information and its relationship to audio Jelly Roll Morton’s King Porter Stomp: 2 scores, 5 renditions, 3 big band arrangements, 1 movie, several pictures Crazy Rhythm, improvised session, Paris, 1937, with four saxophonists