README

ThomasArne is a database framework based on Postgresql with python
support for the storage and manipulation of musical and performance
data, using Lilypond as a presentation agent.

Thomas (Thomas the Note Engine, aka ToNE) refers to the SQL part of
the processing; Arne (Annotated Retrieval of Note Events) refers to
the presentation part.

Thomas Arne was a rather good English composer:

	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Arne

The project is in its initial stages, but has been used for a couple
of projects involving performance and harmonic analysis. We intend to
let it grow organically through application to problems rather
than second guess what the potential user community might want.

Contributors:

Stuart Pullinger
Jenni MacRitchie
Nick Bailey (nick at n hyphen ism dot org)