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BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- An Indiana University researcher is working with two British counterparts to create online databases encoding sheet music and musical performances.


Donald Byrd, visiting associate professor at IU's School of Informatics, shares a $395,000 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant to fund the first phase of the project, which is envisioned as a resource for scholars and musicians.
He will work on MeTAMuSE -- Methodologies and Technologies for Advanced Musical Score Encoding -- with Tim Crawford and Geraint Wiggins of Goldsmiths College, part of the University of London.
Byrd said a vast quantity of musical scores are stored in the world's libraries -- the Library of Congress alone has more than 6 million scores -- yet only a fraction of these resources are available in digital form.
The initial phase of the MeTAMuSE project will develop improved optical music recognition technology to transfer paper-based scores to computer encodings.
Since the end of the 19th century, recorded works have created what Byrd called "an important resource not only as a means to preserve and manage recordings but for written scores as well."
In later phases of MeTAMuSE, the team plans to develop a method to crosslink score- and audio-based computer representations.


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My prediction is that this venture will use plenty of slave student labor. A lot of old scores are very difficult for mere humans to read--and they often contain lots of errors and omissions.

Best of luck to the professor!