.. _about: Authors, Acknowledgments, Contributing, and Licensing ===================================================== `Music21` is an open-source toolkit for Computer-aided musicology. It is licensed under the BSD license (see below). About the Authors ----------------------- **Michael Cuthbert**, the creator of `music21`, is Associate Professor of Music at M.I.T. He received his A.B. *summa cum laude*, A.M. and Ph.D. degrees from Harvard University. Cuthbert spent 2004-05 at the American Academy as a Rome Prize winner in Medieval Studies, 2009-10 as Fellow at Harvard's Villa I Tatti Center for Italian Renaissance Studies in Florence, and 2012-13 at the Radcliffe Institute. Prior to joining the M.I.T. faculty, Cuthbert was on the faculties of Smith and Mount Holyoke Colleges. He has worked extensively on computer-aided musical analysis, fourteenth-century music, and the music of the past forty years. He has published on computer-aided treatment of fragments and palimpsests of the late Middle Ages and on set analysis of Sub-Saharan African Rhythm and the music of John Zorn. In addition to work on music21, Cuthbert is currently writing a book on sacred music in Italy during the age of the Black Death and Great Papal Schism. **Christopher Ariza** is Emeritus Lead Programmer of `music21` and was Visiting Assistant Professor of Music at M.I.T. from 2010 to 2013. Prior to joining the `music21` project, Ariza was Assistant Professor of Music Technology at Towson University in Baltimore. He has published and presented numerous articles and papers on algorithmic composition and generative music systems. Ariza received his A.B. degree from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University. **Benjamin Hogue** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2013. **Josiah Wolf Oberholtzer** is Former Lead Programmer of `music21` for 2014-15. Additional contributions by many MIT students and visitors and the Open Source software community. Acknowledgements ---------------- Funding ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ `music21` was made possible by generous research funding from the **Seaver Institute** and the **National Endowment for the Humanities**/Digging into Data research fund. In addition, we acknowledge consistent support from `M.I.T.`_, the `School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences`_, and the `Music and Theater Arts`_ section. .. _M.I.T.: https://web.mit.edu/ .. _School of Humanities Arts and Social Sciences: https://shass.mit.edu/ .. _Music and Theater Arts: https://mta.mit.edu/ Colleagues and Institutions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music21 is unthinkable without our colleagues and friends working on other music and technology projects, in particular: * `David Huron`_, inventor of `Humdrum`_ (the link refers to a changed version of the project), the inspiration for music21. * `Michael Good`_ and Recordare.com for creating MusicXML and many discussions about the project. * The `Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities`_ at Stanford University, contributing to the knowledge of music since 1984, and publishers of *Computing in Musicology*. .. _David Huron: https://music.osu.edu/people/david-huron .. _Humdrum: https://www.humdrum.org .. _Michael Good: https://www.musicxml.com .. _Center for Computer-Assisted Research in the Humanities: http://www.ccarh.org/ Contributors ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Additionally, the following individuals have contributed materials or knowledge to this project. Their contributions and generosity are greatly appreciated. * Thomas Bonte, Nicholas Froment, and Werner Schweer of `MuseScore`_ for their support and for their contributions to the open source music notation projects, including the Bach Goldberg Variations and the Handel Arias included. * `Donald Byrd`_, researcher on University of Indiana who created a schema for computer-aided musicology (along with the source of all sorts of examples of how music notation is difficult). * `Jack Campin`_ has kindly given permission to distribute his ABC editions of the Aird Collection, the Northumbrian Minstrelsy, and the Colonial and Civil War American Fife Music Collection. * `John Chambers`_ has provided ABC editions to distribute with music21, including the Aird Collection, the O'Neill's Music of Ireland Collection, and Ryan's Mammoth Collection of fiddle tunes. * `Laura E. Conrad`_ has kindly given permission to distribute her ABC editions of renaissance polyphony from Serpent Publications. * `Ewa Dahlig-Turek`_ has kindly given permission to distribute the Essen folksong database with music21. * `Margaret Greentree` kindly gave permission for distribution of her edited collection of the Bach chorales in MusicXML format as part of the music21 corpus. Her website contains all these chorales in additional formats. Any discoveries we make regarding these chorales are done in her memory. * Bret Aarden for kindly contributing his conversions of Palestrina Mass corpus to `music21`. * Walter B. Hewlett and Craig Sapp of Stanford's CCARH for support. * `Justin London` compiled and maintained the list of Second-Viennese row forms now available in serial.py. * `McGill University`_ ELVIS project for including the MEI parser. Special thanks to Julie Cumming, Andrew Hankinson, and especially Christopher Antila for contributing. * `Manuel Op de Coul`_ has kindly gave permission to use the Scala scale archive of nearly 4000 scales in music21. * `Seymour Shlien`_ has kindly given permission to distribute his ABC encodings of the Essen folksong database with music21. * `Bryen Travis`_ has kindly gave permission to use his collection of Bach MIDI data in `music21`. It is no longer included in the Corpus, but we continue to thank him for his generosity. * `Project Gutenberg`_ houses public domain music, including the quartets of Beethoven, Haydn, and Mozart, in musicxml format which we have been able to include in music21. .. _Donald Byrd: https://web.archive.org/web/20220610200930/https://homes.luddy.indiana.edu/donbyrd/CMNExtremes.htm .. _Laura E. Conrad: http://www.serpentpublications.org/drupal7/ .. _MuseScore: https://musescore.com/ .. _Bryen Travis: http://www.bachcentral.com/ .. _Ewa Dahlig-Turek: http://www.esac-data.org .. _Seymour Shlien: https://ifdo.ca/~seymour/runabc/esac/esacdatabase.html .. _Manuel Op de Coul: https://www.huygens-fokker.org/scala .. _John Chambers: http://trillian.mit.edu/~jc/music/book .. _Jack Campin: http://www.campin.me.uk/ .. _McGill University: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:12359/ .. _Project Gutenberg: https://www.gutenberg.org/browse/categories/4 How to Contribute ----------------- We are always interested in working with interested musicologists, programmers, psychologists, composers, game-designers, performers, amateur music enthusiasts, etc. In particular, we're interested in hearing about how `music21` helped you advance your work ... or in problems with `music21` itself or contributions you've made. You can contact the larger `music21` community through the `music21 list`_. .. _music21 list: https://groups.google.com/g/music21list In particular, if you are interested in contributing documentation, tests, or new features to music21, please contact the lead author on GitHub or through the list. Licensing and Copyright --------------------------------- The `music21` Toolkit ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Music21 is Copyright © 2006-2023 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert. Music21 code (excluding content encoded in the corpus) is free and open-source software, licensed under the BSD License. The `music21` Corpus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The BSD-licensed `music21` software is distributed with a corpus of encoded compositions which are distributed with the permission of the encoders (and, where needed, the composers or arrangers) and where permitted under United States copyright law. Some encodings included in the corpus may not be used for commercial uses or have other restrictions: please see the licenses embedded in individual compositions or directories for more details. To the best of our knowledge, the music (if not the encodings) in the corpus are either out of copyright in the United States and/or are licensed for non-commercial use. We also aim to have all files out of copyright in the EU and Canada as well. These works, along with any works linked to in the virtual corpus, may or may not be free in your jurisdiction. If you believe this message to be in error regarding one or more works please contact Michael Cuthbert at the address provided on the contact page.