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Currently, there exist few, if any, free and open source tools available that display symbolic music notation. Most of these existing tools are proprietary and expensive. The goal of the project is to create a programmable solution that will enable the visualization of symbolic music in Python, drawing the music notation using an existing glyph-based musical font. This project creates a read-only music visualization interface that handles MIDI or MusicXML input and displays an interactive musical score in a view window. This software is designed for the Soundbendor lab, who need a visualization package to support their research involving music and artificial intelligence. Unlike similar music visualization software, our application will be available to the public via a public package manager such as PyPi for no cost. This project serves as a foundation for future improvements and functionality. This work will allow researchers, or anyone working with MIDI or MusicXML music files, to better visualize, analyze, and understand the results of their musical research at a decreased cost.