Happy New Year 2025

README.md

@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 `music21` -- A Toolkit for Computer-Aided Musical Analysis and 
 Computational Musicology
 
-Copyright © 2006-2024 [Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert](http://www.trecento.com)
+Copyright © 2006-2025 [Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert](http://www.trecento.com)
 
 For more information, visit:
 https://www.music21.org/music21docs/

music21/__init__.py

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 '''
-The music21 Framework is Copyright © 2006-2024 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert.
+The music21 Framework is Copyright © 2006-2025 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert.
 
 Some Rights Reserved
 Released under the BSD (3-clause) license.  See license.txt.
@@ -52,7 +52,7 @@
     If you have the wrong version there are several options for getting
     the right one.
 
-    - 1. (Best) Upgrade to Python 3, latest (currently 3.12).
+    - 1. (Best) Upgrade to a recent version of Python 3 (such as 3.13).
 
          The great features there will more
          than make up for the headache of downloading
@@ -62,7 +62,9 @@
          Try running "python3" instead of "python"
 
     - 2. Upgrade pip and setuptools to the latest version
-         and then "upgrade" music21 to an earlier version.
+         and then use "upgrade" to downgrade music21 to
+         an earlier version.
+
          For instance to install version 4 you'd run:
 
          $ pip install --upgrade pip setuptools
@@ -122,7 +124,7 @@
 
     # individual modules
     # KEEP ALPHABETICAL unless necessary for load reasons, if so
-    # put a note.  Keep one letter per line.
+    # put a note.
 
     'articulations',
     'bar',

music21/common/enums.py

@@ -157,9 +157,9 @@ class OffsetSpecial(StrEnum):
 
     * New in v7.
     '''
-    AT_END: str = 'highestTime'
-    LOWEST_OFFSET: str = 'lowestOffset'
-    HIGHEST_OFFSET: str = 'highestOffset'
+    AT_END = 'highestTime'
+    LOWEST_OFFSET = 'lowestOffset'
+    HIGHEST_OFFSET = 'highestOffset'
 
 
 class GatherSpanners(BooleanEnum):

music21/license.txt

@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
 #               distributed with this package, particularly the corpus files
 #               which have their own copyrights and licenses.
 #
-# Copyright:    music21 is "Copyright © 2006-2024 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert"
+# Copyright:    music21 is "Copyright © 2006-2025 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert"
 #               and is open-source licensed under the
 #               BSD 3-Clause License (beginning with music21 v2.0)
 #               reprinted below.
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ the BSD license still under effect.
 ---
 BSD License
 
-Copyright (c) 2006-2024 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
+Copyright (c) 2006-2025 Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert
 All rights reserved.
 
 Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without

music21/romanText/translate.py

@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@
 from music21 import bar
 from music21 import base
 from music21 import common
+from music21.common.types import OffsetQL
 from music21 import environment
 from music21 import exceptions21
 from music21 import harmony
@@ -703,15 +704,21 @@ def translateSingleMeasure(self, measureToken):
         m.coreElementsChanged()
         return m
 
-    def translateSingleMeasureAtom(self, a, m, *, isLastAtomInMeasure=False):
+    def translateSingleMeasureAtom(
+        self,
+        a: rtObjects.RTAtom,
+        m: stream.Measure,
+        *,
+        isLastAtomInMeasure: bool = False,
+    ) -> None:
         '''
         Translate a single atom in a measure token.
 
         `a` is the Atom
         `m` is a `stream.Measure` object.
 
         Uses coreInsert and coreAppend methods, so must have `m.coreElementsChanged()`
-        called afterwards.
+        called afterward.
         '''
         if (isinstance(a, rtObjects.RTKey)
                 or (self.foundAKeySignatureSoFar is False
@@ -831,7 +838,12 @@ def translateSingleMeasureAtom(self, a, m, *, isLastAtomInMeasure=False):
             m.coreInsert(self.currentOffsetInMeasure, rtt)
             # environLocal.warn(f' Got an unknown token: {a}')
 
-    def processRTChord(self, a, m, currentOffset):
+    def processRTChord(
+        self,
+        a: rtObjects.RTChord,
+        m: stream.Measure,
+        currentOffset: OffsetQL
+    ) -> None:
         '''
         Process a single RTChord atom.
         '''
@@ -887,7 +899,7 @@ def processRTChord(self, a, m, currentOffset):
                 rn.followsKeyChange = False
         except roman.RomanNumeralException:  # pragma: no cover
             # environLocal.printDebug(f' cannot create RN from: {a.src}')
-            rn = note.Note()  # create placeholder
+            rn = roman.RomanNumeral()  # create placeholder
 
         if self.pivotChordPossible is False:
             # probably best to find duration