MusicXML
November 19th, 2005 | by Joe |During my recent round of trying to evaluate the right music notation software for myself, I came across an XML application that I can truly relate to: MusicXML.
Much like how MathML is used to describe mathematical documents, MusicXML does this for music. It’s brilliant. Just looking at the spec, I can think of oh so many cool things that could be done with this, from extracting patterns out of the self-describing XML data all the way to doing some interesting procedures over the web.
And heck, if I was ever that much of a cheapskate, I could always write up a composition using XML rather than hoofing up the $650 bill for a full copy of Finale…
OK maybe that would be impractical for all but the simplest arrangement of Three Blind Mice. But it’s nice to know that, hey, it is an option if someone had the time…
Tags: composition, Music, xml
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