Type of Document Master's Thesis Author Bays, Geoffrey Alan Author's Email Address gbays1@student.gsu.edu URN etd-07072005-150030 Title ScoreSVG: A New Software Framework for Capturing the Semantic Meaning and Graphical Representation of Musical Scores Using JAVA2D, XML, and SVG Degree Master of Science Department Computer Science Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Ying Zhu Committee Chair Rajsekhar Sunderraman Committee Member Xaolin Hu Committee Member Keywords
- Music Notation
- Music Editing
- Java 2D Graphics
- Guido
- XSLT
- XML
- SVG
Date of Defense 2005-07-21 Availability unrestricted Abstract ScoreSVG implements a three-tiered software architecture that generates musical scores in scalable vector graphics (SVG), something no other known music editor has done. SVG is non-proprietary XML-based format that renders graphical content into a web browser equipped with a SVG plugin. Scores in SVG can be scripted to produce interactive music theory examples, or make other graphical score changes impossible in any other format. Large music score editors such as Finale and Sibelius output to proprietary file formats, or Postscript (.ps) files that are not interchangeable or modifiable once created. Open source efforts such as LilyPond or Guido require the user to learn a new text-based music format to get a PostScript music score. ScoreSVG converts the data from a user-friendly visual front end to GuidoXML, capturing the semantic meaning of the score, and then outputs the result in SVG using an XSL stylesheet and the Saxon 8.4 XSLT processor.Files
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