The Goal of this project is to create a python package (TROP) and a web application (TROPARION) to assist in the transcription of byzantine musical notation into modern western notation and midi.

My hopes are to write a piece of software that is helpful to musicologists, novice performers, teachers and composers.

1. planing/architectural design
2. build of a python package to handle the core functionality
3. build of additional features for the web app
4. build of the web-app
5. deployment of the web-app

• textbased symbolic user input of byzantine notation
• rendered modern western notation output
• midi output

• rendered byzantine notation output
• textbased syllabic user input of byzantine notation
• editable modern western notation output
• microtonally tuned midi-output
• lyrics input and output (Latin)
• lyrics input and output (Cyrillic)
• lyrics input and output (Greek)

• button based input
• modern western notation to byzantine notation transcription
• wysiwyg input
• lyrics input and output (Arabic)
• lyrics input and output (Hebrew)
• meter and barlines
• companion optical character recognition software

Even when MuseScore is installed, the .show() method may not work imediatelly. There are several solutions to this.

Running python -m music21.configure in the command line will open the configuration wizard.

Importin music21 and running music21.configure.run() within a script should do the same.

Running environment.set('musescoreDirectPNGPath', 'C:\Program Files\MuseScore 3\bin\MuseScore3.exe') with the respective installation path allows for png outputs in jupyter notebooks.

A (soon to be imporoved) documentation can be found here

Please refer to the TROP Architecture file for now.