partitura: A Python Package for Handling Symbolic Musical Data

Abstract

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.

This preprint is a slightly updated and reformatted version of the work presented at the Late Breaking/Demo Session of the 20th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference (ISMIR 2019), Delft, The Netherlands