Abstract
Not only in childhood but also adulthood, we need some
traini ng to read music scores, which sometimes make music hard
to learn and enjoy. In this article, we shall propose the system that enables users to play their handwritten musical notations
by our musical interface. Since 1960's, Optical Music Recognition (OMR) has become matured in the field of printed
score. In recent, some products were released on a market that uses OMR for music composition and playing. However,
few researches on handwritten notations have been done, as well as on interactive system for OMR. We combined notating
with performing in order to make the music more intuitive for users and give aids to learn music to users. We set 6 design
criteria for evaluation of o ur musical interface. Through users tests and user observations, we shall report our system has
high accurate image recognition for handwritten notation and is success to help users to create music along with our design
criteria.
