Music21 has been used in numerous research tasks already, and will continue to offer researchers many tools with which to explore new domains.
The following papers and publications make extensive use of Music21. When links become available for download, they will be added.
Ariza, C. and M. S. Cuthbert. 2011. “The music21 Stream: A New Object Model for Representing, Filtering, and Transforming Symbolic Musical Structures.” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association, pp. 61-68. Available online at http://www.flexatone.org/static/docs/music21Stream.pdf
Ariza, C. and M. S. Cuthbert. 2011. “Analytical and Compositional Applications of a Network-Based Scale Model in music21.” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association, pp. 701-708. Available online at http://www.flexatone.org/static/docs/scaleNetwork.pdf
Ariza, C. and M. S. Cuthbert. 2010. “Modeling Beats, Accents, Beams, and Time Signatures Hierarchically with music21 Meter Objects.” In Proceedings of the International Computer Music Conference. San Francisco: International Computer Music Association. 216-223. Available online at http://mit.edu/music21/papers/2010MeterObjects.pdf
Cuthbert, M. S. and C. Ariza. 2010. “music21: A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musicology and Symbolic Music Data.” In Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval.
Ariza, C. and M. S. Cuthbert. 2010. “Modeling Musical Structures as Objects in music21.”
There are numerous applications for music21 that we anticipate, yet simply have not had time to implement. Consider taking on one of these projects, or write us with new and interesting suggestions. To contact the authors, visit Authors, Acknowledgments, Contributing, and Licensing.