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Article: Beyond MIDI: The Handbook of Musical Codes.(Review)
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- December 1, 1998
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1998 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Edited by Eleanor Selfridge-Field. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1997. [xvii, 630 p. ISBN 0-26219394-9. $50.]
As its title implies, Beyond MIDI is not just another addition to the many MIDI books currently on the market. In fact, less than 70 of its 630 pages have anything to do with MIDI. Rather, Beyond MIDI attempts to document, explore, and ultimately influence the future of the many ways that music and musical ideas are described, interpreted, and stored by computers. It is an invaluable resource for anyone interested in developing, parsing, or otherwise exploring computerized musical codes.
The book is divided into twelve main sections, starting with ...