Project Proposal

We have added some information about the OCR and MIDI theory. We also have the platform of reading Thai music notation too.


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Thai music notation Platform


2.1 Thai Music Notation Thai music notes can be represented by using symbols to define the voice manners. The 3 basic symbol sets consist of 1. Pitch of the note. 2. Duration of the note. 3. Other special symbols. 1) Pitch Pitch of Thai music is determined by 7 characters of Thai language plus pitch (.) which is placed below the characters to represent low voice, and the a high-point (.) which is placed over the characters to represent high voice as you can see in the table below.

Table 2.1 The notation representation

Low voice	General Thai music voice	High voice
ดฺ (Low Dole)	ด (Dole)	ดํ (High Dole)
รฺ (Low Re)	ร (Re)	รํ (High Re)
มฺ (Low Me)	ม (Me)	มํ (High Me)
ฟฺ (Low Fa)	ฟ (Fa)	ฟํ (High Fa)
ซฺ (Low Sol)	ซ (Sol)	ซํ (High Sol)
ลฺ (Low La)	ล (La)	ลํ (High La)
ทฺ (Low Si)	ท (Si)	ทํ (High Si)

2) Duration The duration of the Thai note is indicated by measures of the duration. 2.1) Measure Measure performs as beat in international music. It will move forward slow and fast constantly. Every note recording line contains 8 music rooms where the rhythm always will be placed in the end of Thai note in each music rooms.

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2.2) Note arrangement Each music room includes 4 sub-unit beats..

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In Thai music notation system, each Thai music note and each symbol –(minus) equal 1 length of rhythm. 

-- equals –ด 

-ด equals รด

--ด equals -รด 

ม-ด equals -มด

-ม-ด equals -มรด 

When the symbol - (minus) is placed on the end of any letter it will extend the sound of the notes 1 sub-unit beat. 

For example: 

ม/---ช/---ล/-ซ-ล/ 

Me---Sol----La---Sol---La 

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Both Thai music note and symbol – (music) can swap their positions follow the melody of the music. Therefore, the symbol arrangement can be in many forms as you can see in an example below.

Case1 : 1 note per room

/---ซ / --- ม / --- ร / ---ด / 

Case2 : 2 notes per room

/ -ล-ล / -ม-ล / -ล-ซ / -ม-ล/ 

Case3 : 3 notes per room

/ -มซม / -ดมร / -มซด / -ลลล /

Case4 : 4 notes per room

/ ซลดร / มรดล / ชลดร / รรรร /