IEEE PAR 1599

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IEEE PAR 1599
First Draft Submitted, May 2005 Web Page
http//www.computer.org/standards/1599/par.htm
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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, .
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Relationship between Symbolic Music Information
and Audio Layers
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Existing standards (proposed or de-facto)
MusicXML, MEI, SMDL, Hy Time, SMIL, MusiXML,
MusiCat MDL, WEDELMUSIC Format, MNML, MML,
MuTaTeD, MusicML, ChordML
New Standard IEEE1599
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Examples

• 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

• Fugue show how the theme reappears in the
  different voices

• Indian Classical Music mode of the raga

• African Drumming, Cuban guaguanco time
  relationships

• Perservation of the Cultural Heritage, in
  symbolic form

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