2015-10-14 status

Done

Administrivia

• Obtained $200 to pay lottery winners for first two surveys.

Data Collection

• Invited several more acquaintances to participate in survey and did some ineffectual nagging.
• Distributed initial survey recruitment email to list of 165 Chicago area piano teachers. Received 6 responses so far.
• Added character buffer to make MDC4 fingering entry more fluid. Performance seems good now.
• Added ability to specify hand in use for fingerings to allow either hand to be used on either staff.
• Implemented output and validation functions in MDC4 to enable interoperation with Qaultrics.
• Fixed problem with whitespace entry in MDC4.
• Changed MDC4 rendering of left and right hand fingerings to be in different fonts, so they can be easily differentiated.
• Implemented method in MDC4 for annotating synchronous pitches from multiple voices.
• Supported "redundant" identical synchronous pitches from multiple voices in MDC4.
• Took a stab at defining BNF grammar for fingering entry strings, using ANTLR. Regular expressions currently in use are buggy and restrict expressiveness. But they are probably sufficient for the current task.

Doing

1. Auditing Music 170 (Keyboard Skills I), TuTh 3:30-4:45.
2. Adding file save and print features to MDC4.
3. Integrating MDC4 into draft Qualtrics survey for WTC, Book 1, Prelude 1.
4. Standardizing file format for fingering.

Struggling

• Response rate stinks.