diff --git a/audio/py-music21/Makefile b/audio/py-music21/Makefile
index efd5879951ac..b576967e6d4c 100644
--- a/audio/py-music21/Makefile
+++ b/audio/py-music21/Makefile
@@ -1,44 +1,43 @@
 PORTNAME=	music21
-DISTVERSION=	9.5.0
-PORTREVISION=	1
+DISTVERSION=	9.7.1
 CATEGORIES=	audio python
 MASTER_SITES=	PYPI
 PKGNAMEPREFIX=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}
 
 MAINTAINER=	yuri@FreeBSD.org
 COMMENT=	Toolkit for computer-aided musical analysis
 WWW=		https://web.mit.edu/music21/ \
 		https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21
 
 LICENSE=	BSD3CLAUSE LGPL3
 LICENSE_COMB=	multi
 LICENSE_FILE=	${WRKSRC}/LICENSE
 
 BUILD_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}hatchling>0:devel/py-hatchling@${PY_FLAVOR}
-RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYNUMPY} \
-		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}chardet>0:textproc/py-chardet@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+RUN_DEPENDS=	${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}chardet>0:textproc/py-chardet@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}joblib>0:devel/py-joblib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}jsonpickle>0:devel/py-jsonpickle@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}matplotlib>0:math/py-matplotlib@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}more-itertools>0:devel/py-more-itertools@${PY_FLAVOR} \
+		${PYNUMPY} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}requests>0:www/py-requests@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		${PYTHON_PKGNAMEPREFIX}webcolors>=1.5:graphics/py-webcolors@${PY_FLAVOR} \
 		lilypond:print/lilypond \
 		mscore:audio/musescore \
 		xdg-open:devel/xdg-utils
 
 USES=		python
 USE_PYTHON=	pep517 autoplist pytest
 
 NO_ARCH=	yes
 
 post-patch:
 	@${REINPLACE_CMD} -e " \
 		s|/usr/bin/lilypond|${LOCALBASE}/bin/lilypond|; \
 		s|/usr/bin/mscore3|${LOCALBASE}/bin/mscore|; \
 		s|/usr/bin/xdg-open|${LOCALBASE}/bin/xdg-open|" \
 		${WRKSRC}/music21/environment.py
 
-# tests as of 9.5.0: 539 passed, 4 warnings in 359.14s (0:05:59)
+# tests as of 9.7.1: 542 passed, 4 warnings in 79.82s (0:01:19)
 
 .include <bsd.port.mk>
diff --git a/audio/py-music21/distinfo b/audio/py-music21/distinfo
index ddcbdb495d7f..a02d5881f2fa 100644
--- a/audio/py-music21/distinfo
+++ b/audio/py-music21/distinfo
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
-TIMESTAMP = 1743120820
-SHA256 (music21-9.5.0.tar.gz) = f888a84f7abfa6e727b7028cdbf7b7bd9fa746009b766ca604fb749a67078d1a
-SIZE (music21-9.5.0.tar.gz) = 16713764
+TIMESTAMP = 1757089889
+SHA256 (music21-9.7.1.tar.gz) = b056cc41fb989f492e291882c13c02ebc13e8f5734c6aab9aeb9fe6cfd2c2550
+SIZE (music21-9.7.1.tar.gz) = 16732133