partitura: A Python Package for Handling Symbolic Musical Data
This provides a tool for researchers and developers in music information retrieval to work with richly structured symbolic music data, though it is incremental as it builds on existing concepts.
The authors introduced partitura, a Python package designed to handle symbolic musical data from staff notation, offering more comprehensive capabilities than the common piano roll approach based on MIDI.
This demo paper introduces partitura, a Python package for handling symbolic musical information. The principal aim of this package is to handle richly structured musical information as conveyed by modern staff music notation. It provides a much wider range of possibilities to deal with music than the more reductive (but very common) piano roll-oriented approach inspired by the MIDI standard. The package is an open source project and is available on GitHub.