The purpose of writing this report is to record and comment the work done the last year The report will also summarise my main insights into the problem and outline future work There mere three main areas of nork: staff line detection; preparation for musical feature recognition and the recognition process itsel[ For each area, a program was developex:l that alloued the topic to me examined and investigate& Though work was carried out concurrently, they will be reported sequentially, in the order just giveru The resp«tive programs names "ere xstaff, xsep, and xmsm Having the right development environment to study Optical Music Recognition (OMR) was seen as an important facet to work Time throughout the year was devoted to In particular, time was invested learning C-H- (an object oriented programming language), Interviews (a toolkit for X Windouy), Ckound (an audio playing package) and Midi, as "ell as extending knowledge of Emacs, Motif and the Unix operating system The purpose of writing this report is to record and comment the work done the last year The report will also summarise my main insights into the problem and outline future work There mere three main areas of nork: staff line detection; preparation for musical feature recognition and the recognition process itsel[ For each area, a program was developex:l that alloued the topic to me examined and investigate& Though work was carried out concurrently, they will be reported sequentially, in the order just giveru The resp«tive programs names "ere xstaff, xsep, and xmsm Having the right development environment to study Optical Music Recognition (OMR) was seen as an important facet to work Time throughout the year was devoted to In particular, time was invested learning C-H- (an object oriented programming language), Interviews (a toolkit for X Windouy), Ckound (an audio playing package) and Midi, as "ell as extending knowledge of Emacs, Motif and the Unix operating system