Python music interfaces

[Lonnie Princehouse]

Are you talking about audio files (wav, mp3) or MIDI?   Converting
audio files into discrete notes ("music recognition") is seriously
non-trivial, although there are some commercial products you might be
able to use for this.  On the other hand, you could draw a
spectrographs without too much trouble.  As

For reading the audio file, you could start with the built-in wave
module to read uncompressed WAV files, and worry about other formats
later on.  Any external audio converter will be able to save as WAV
(sox on Linux is one such program)

Tkinter's Canvas will work nicely for display, particularly because
it's absurdly easy to convert Canvas contents into PostScript for
printing.