Denis L. Baggi

IEEE 1599: Music Encoding and Interaction

IEEE Std 1599 allows interaction with music content such as notes and sounds in video applications and in any interactive device.

The New Standard IEEE 1599, Introduction and Examples

IEEE 1599 is a new standard to encode music with XML symbols. It offers two important original characteristics compared to existing standards of the worlds of music, musicology and computer applications to this art and science. On one side, the encoding is in the form of symbols that can be read both by machines and humans. On the other, it allows the realization of applications in which all aspects of music, such as audio and sound, graphical representation, historical data, performance indications, represented thanks to the new concept of layers, are fully integrated, synchronized and can be accessed both individually and as parts of a whole. The article will give a brief description of the standard and of applications that have been built to show its power.

Towards a Semantic Web Based Model for the Tonal System in Standard IEEE 1599

XML based representations of music, such as the standard IEEE 1599, usually describe in detail all features of music as found in scores and/or synchronizes different music layers to allow navigation. The enhancement proposed here adds to this kind of definitions musicological concepts, allowing the future realization of inferences for an analytical understanding of a piece of tonal music. To this aim, an ontology about tonal music is defined and two initial prototypes, concerning the application of the semantic web technology, have been developed. The prototypes here describe in detail tonal music element formalizations and an example of the application of an inference rule about intervals.

NINA - Navigating and Interacting with Notation and Audio

This article deals with an XML-based format that allows an integrated representation of music, as well as with a working software demo that demonstrates the power of the format. The format itself is the basis of an IEEE international standard for a comprehensive description of music contents and their synchronisation. After a theoretical introduction, a music browser based on such concepts will be reviewed. The application, called NINA (for Navigating and Interacting with Notation and Audio), has been recently presented at an exhibition about Neapolitan music.

The concept of interactive music: the new standard IEEE P1599 / MX

Music is much more than passive listening to a binary file. It can easily become a complete experience, the adventure of entering a new world, of understanding a narration and seeing images. Music has always incorporated the newest technology of a given epoch, and the marriage with computer science is at least as old as the early attempts by Mozart and Haydn. For at least forty centuries in all cultures, music has used symbols to represent its contents and give hints for its performance, thus this standard is the continuation of this tradition with its use of human and machine readable symbols using the XML language. This article illustrates the possibilities offered by the new standard IEEE P1599, locally known as project MX, through a few applications meant to show its flexibility and its role as enabling technology.