Supervisor: Alan Sexton
Keywords: User Interface Design, Music
Brief Description:
I have supervised a number of music related projects in
the past, and one significant problem with all of them is
the lack of a freely available high quality user interface
for dynamically displaying and interacting with a
graphical representation of sheet music. Think of it as
the musical equivalent of a Java Swing JEditorPane: One
should be able to display music scores in it, dynamically
modify the contents of the pane, highlight parts of the
score, etc. Such a Swing control could be used as the
front end to any number of music related applications:
from capturing midi on a keyboard and display the
corresponding music in real time, to playing music while
highlighting on the score exactly what is being played, to
providing the front end to a music score editor.
The student should understand at least something about
reading music and music theory although he/she does not have
to be an expert.
Special Equipment: No special equipment requirements
Special Software: No special software requirements
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