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| 1 | +.. _about: |
| 2 | + |
| 3 | + |
| 4 | +Authors, Acknowledgments, Contributing, and Licensing |
| 5 | +===================================================== |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +`Music21` is an open-source toolkit for Computer-aided musicology. It is licensed under |
| 8 | +the BSD license (see below). |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +About the Authors |
| 11 | +----------------------- |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +**Michael Cuthbert**, the creator of `music21`, is co-founder and chief music officer of |
| 14 | +`Artusi`_ and former tenured professor of music at M.I.T. where he created the Mellon-Funded |
| 15 | +Digital Humanities lab and taught computational music theory and musicology. |
| 16 | +He received his A.B. *summa cum laude*, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. |
| 17 | +Cuthbert spent 2004-05 at the American Academy as a Rome Prize winner in Medieval Studies, |
| 18 | +2009-10 as Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies |
| 19 | +in Florence, and 2012-13 at the Radcliffe Institute. |
| 20 | + |
| 21 | +Prior to joining the M.I.T. faculty, Cuthbert was on the faculties of Smith |
| 22 | +and Mount Holyoke Colleges. He has worked extensively on computer-aided musical analysis, |
| 23 | +fourteenth-century music, and the music since 1960. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +**Christopher Ariza** is Emeritus Lead Programmer of `music21` and was |
| 26 | +Visiting Assistant Professor of Music |
| 27 | +at M.I.T. from 2010 to 2013. Prior to joining the `music21` project, |
| 28 | +Ariza was Assistant Professor of Music |
| 29 | +Technology at Towson University in Baltimore. He has published and |
| 30 | +presented numerous articles |
| 31 | +and papers on algorithmic composition and generative music systems. |
| 32 | +Ariza received his A.B. |
| 33 | +degree from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | +**Benjamin Hogue** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2013. |
| 36 | + |
| 37 | +**Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2014-15. |
| 38 | + |
| 39 | +Additional contributions by many MIT students and visitors and the |
| 40 | +Open Source software community. |
| 41 | + |
| 42 | +.. _Artusi: https://www.artusimusic.com/ |
| 43 | + |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | +Acknowledgements |
| 46 | +---------------- |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +Funding |
| 49 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +`music21` was made possible by generous research funding |
| 52 | +from the **Seaver Institute** and |
| 53 | +the **National Endowment for the Humanities**/Digging into Data research fund. |
| 54 | + |
| 55 | +In addition, we acknowledge previous support from `M.I.T.`_, the |
| 56 | +`School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences`_, and the |
| 57 | +`Music and Theater Arts`_ section. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +.. _M.I.T.: https://web.mit.edu/ |
| 60 | +.. _School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences: https://shass.mit.edu/ |
| 61 | +.. _Music and Theater Arts: https://mta.mit.edu/ |
| 62 | + |
| 63 | +Colleagues and Institutions |
| 64 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +Music21 is unthinkable without our colleagues and friends |
| 67 | +working on other music and technology projects, in particular: |
| 68 | + |
| 69 | +* `David Huron`_, inventor of `Humdrum`_ (the link refers to a changed version of the project), |
| 70 | + the inspiration for music21. |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +* `Michael Good`_ and Recordare.com for creating MusicXML and many |
| 73 | + discussions about the project. |
| 74 | + |
| 75 | +* The `Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities`_ at Stanford University, |
| 76 | + contributing to the knowledge of music since 1984, and |
| 77 | + publishers of *Computing in Musicology*. |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +.. _David Huron: https://music.osu.edu/people/david-huron |
| 80 | +.. _Humdrum: https://www.humdrum.org |
| 81 | +.. _Michael Good: https://www.musicxml.com |
| 82 | +.. _Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities: http://www.ccarh.org/ |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +Contributors |
| 85 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 86 | + |
| 87 | +Additionally, the following individuals have contributed materials or knowledge |
| 88 | +to this project. Their contributions and generosity are greatly appreciated. |
| 89 | + |
| 90 | +* Thomas Bonte, Nicholas Froment, and Werner Schweer of `MuseScore`_ for their |
| 91 | + support and for their contributions to the open source music notation projects, |
| 92 | + including the Bach Goldberg Variations and the Handel Arias included. |
| 93 | + |
| 94 | +* `Jacob Walls`_, contributed greatly to the type-safety, speed, and test coverage |
| 95 | + of `music21`. If your music21 program "just works" without needing to guess what |
| 96 | + any argument goes where, Jacob is to thank. |
| 97 | + |
| 98 | +* `Donald Byrd`_, researcher on University of Indiana who created |
| 99 | + a schema for computer-aided musicology (along with the source of all sorts of |
| 100 | + examples of how music notation is difficult). |
| 101 | + |
| 102 | +* `Jack Campin`_ has kindly given permission to distribute his ABC editions of the Aird |
| 103 | + Collection, the Northumbrian Minstrelsy, and the Colonial and Civil War American |
| 104 | + Fife Music Collection. |
| 105 | + |
| 106 | +* `John Chambers`_ has provided ABC editions to distribute with music21, including the |
| 107 | + Aird Collection, the O'Neill's Music of Ireland Collection, and Ryan's Mammoth Collection |
| 108 | + of fiddle tunes. |
| 109 | + |
| 110 | +* `Laura E. Conrad`_ has kindly given permission to distribute her ABC editions of |
| 111 | + renaissance polyphony from Serpent Publications. |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | +* `Ewa Dahlig-Turek`_ has kindly given permission to distribute the |
| 114 | + Essen folksong database with music21. |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | +* `Margaret Greentree` kindly gave permission for distribution of her edited |
| 117 | + collection of the Bach chorales in MusicXML format as part of the music21 corpus. |
| 118 | + Her website contains all these chorales in additional formats. |
| 119 | + Any discoveries we make regarding these chorales are done in her memory. |
| 120 | + |
| 121 | +* Bret Aarden for kindly contributing his conversions of Palestrina Mass corpus to `music21`. |
| 122 | + |
| 123 | +* Walter B. Hewlett and Craig Sapp of Stanford's CCARH for support. |
| 124 | + |
| 125 | +* `Justin London` compiled and maintained the list of Second-Viennese |
| 126 | + row forms that form the original backbone of serial.py. |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | +* `McGill University`_ ELVIS project for including the MEI parser. Special thanks to Julie |
| 129 | + Cumming, Andrew Hankinson, Ichiro Fujinaga, and especially Christopher Antila for contributing. |
| 130 | + |
| 131 | +* `Manuel Op de Coul`_ has kindly gave permission to use the Scala |
| 132 | + scale archive of nearly 4000 scales in music21. |
| 133 | + |
| 134 | +* `Seymour Shlien`_ has kindly given permission to distribute his ABC |
| 135 | + encodings of the Essen folksong database with music21. |
| 136 | + |
| 137 | +* `Bryen Travis`_ has kindly gave permission to use his collection of |
| 138 | + Bach MIDI data in `music21`. It is no longer included in the Corpus, but we |
| 139 | + continue to thank him for his generosity. |
| 140 | + |
| 141 | +* `Project Gutenberg`_ houses public domain music, including the quartets of Beethoven, |
| 142 | + Haydn, and Mozart, in musicxml format which we have been able to include in music21. |
| 143 | + |
| 144 | +.. _Donald Byrd: https://web.archive.org/web/20220610200930/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/donbyrd/CMNExtremes.htm |
| 145 | +.. _Jacob Walls: https://jacobtylerwalls.com/ |
| 146 | +.. _Laura E. Conrad: http://www.serpentpublications.org/drupal7/ |
| 147 | +.. _MuseScore: https://musescore.com/ |
| 148 | +.. _Bryen Travis: http://www.bachcentral.com/ |
| 149 | +.. _Ewa Dahlig-Turek: http://www.esac-data.org |
| 150 | +.. _Seymour Shlien: https://ifdo.ca/~seymour/runabc/esac/esacdatabase.html |
| 151 | +.. _Manuel Op de Coul: https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala |
| 152 | +.. _John Chambers: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book |
| 153 | +.. _Jack Campin: http://www.campin.me.uk/ |
| 154 | +.. _McGill University: https://works.hcommons.org/records/c6ew2-tth07 |
| 155 | +.. _Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/4 |
| 156 | + |
| 157 | + |
| 158 | +How to Contribute |
| 159 | +----------------- |
| 160 | + |
| 161 | +We are always interested in working with interested musicologists, |
| 162 | +programmers, psychologists, composers, game-designers, |
| 163 | +performers, amateur music enthusiasts, etc. In particular, we're interested |
| 164 | +in hearing about how `music21` helped you |
| 165 | +advance your work ... or in problems with `music21` itself or contributions you've made. |
| 166 | + |
| 167 | +You can contact the larger `music21` community through the `music21 list`_. |
| 168 | + |
| 169 | +.. _music21 list: https://groups.google.com/g/music21list |
| 170 | + |
| 171 | +In particular, if you are interested in contributing documentation, tests, |
| 172 | +or new features to music21, please contact the lead author on GitHub or through the |
| 173 | +list. |
| 174 | + |
| 175 | + |
| 176 | +Licensing and Copyright |
| 177 | +--------------------------------- |
| 178 | + |
| 179 | +The `music21` Toolkit |
| 180 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 181 | + |
| 182 | +Music21 is Copyright © 2006-2024 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert. |
| 183 | +Music21 code (excluding content encoded in the corpus) is |
| 184 | +free and open-source software, licensed under the BSD License. |
| 185 | + |
| 186 | +The `music21` Corpus |
| 187 | +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ |
| 188 | + |
| 189 | +The BSD-licensed `music21` software is distributed with a corpus of encoded |
| 190 | +compositions which are distributed |
| 191 | +with the permission of the encoders (and, where needed, the composers |
| 192 | +or arrangers) and where permitted |
| 193 | +under United States copyright law. Some encodings included in the corpus |
| 194 | +may not be used for commercial uses |
| 195 | +or have other restrictions: please see the licenses embedded in individual |
| 196 | +compositions or directories for more details. |
| 197 | + |
| 198 | +To the best of our knowledge, the music (if not the encodings) |
| 199 | +in the corpus are either out of copyright |
| 200 | +in the United States and/or are licensed for non-commercial use. We also |
| 201 | +aim to have all files out of copyright in the EU and Canada as well. |
| 202 | +These works, along with any works linked |
| 203 | +to in the virtual corpus, may or may not be free in your jurisdiction. |
| 204 | +If you believe this message to be in |
| 205 | +error regarding one or more works please contact Michael Cuthbert at |
| 206 | +the address provided on the contact page. |
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