MuseScore

Hack sheet music!

Nicolas Froment / @lasconic

MuseScore

MuseScore is free and open source notation software

Hack with MuseScore

• Hardcore: Hack in C++
• Manipulate the score with Javascript plugin API
• Interact with the score in real time via OSC
• Tweak the audio output with Soundfonts
• Route MIDI out via Jack

MuseScore.com

MuseScore.com

Large repository of user generated scores

Several formats through a REST API

• MuseScore format
• MusicXML
• MIDI
• PNG images
• MP3
• Synchronisation data: timestamp ↔ measure

Search scores

Search all scores containing "Bach"

import requests

url = "https://api.musescore.com/services/rest/score.json"
url += "&oauth_consumer_key=musichackday2016"

score = requests.get(endpoint + "&text=Bach").json()

for score in scores:
	print score['id']
	print score['secret']
	print score['title']
	print score['description']
						

Get MIDI file

Access any score file (images, MusicXML, MIDI)

import requests

url = "https://api.musescore.com/services/rest/score/29517.json"
url += "&oauth_consumer_key=musichackday"

score = requests.get(url).json()

midiUrl = "http://static.musescore.com"
midiUrl += "/" + score['id'] + "/" + score['secret']
midiUrl += "/score.mid"
print midiUrl
					

MuseScore.com API

http://developers.musescore.com

• Consumer key: musichackday
• Consumer secret: musichackday2016

Contact

@lasconic @thomasbonte

#musescore on freenode.net

Interesting scores

• Beethoven Symphony No. 5 (1st movement)
• Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6 (4th movement)

3D hands on a keyboard

• Algorithm to find fingerings automatically
• Hands model animated in three.js
• MIDI or MusicXML file with fingerings
• Animate in sync with a score

Data

• Large dataset of MusicXML and MIDI files
• Magenta
• Features extraction
• Classification, recommandation, visualisation

Visualization example: Beethoven 5th

CC-BY-SA Nicholas Rougeux

Happy hacking

@lasconic @thomasbonte

#musescore on freenode.net