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MusicXML is an open, XML-based music notation file format. Don't change "Extensible" See also Modern musical symbols Music notation or musical notation is any system which represents aurally perceived Music through the use

It was developed by Recordare LLC, deriving several key concepts from existing academic formats (such as Walter Hewlett's MuseData and David Huron's Humdrum). It is designed for the interchange of scores, particularly between different scorewriters. Sheet music is a hand-written or printed form of Musical notation; like its analogs -- books pamphlets etc A scorewriter, or music notation program, is Software used to automate the task of writing and engraving Sheet music. Version 1. 0 was released in January 2004. Version 1. 1 was released in May 2005 with improved formatting support. Version 2. 0 was released in June 2007 and included a standard compressed format.

As of March 2008, MusicXML is supported to varying degrees by over 90 different notation programs. These programs include:

The two leading scorewriting programs, Finale and Sibelius
Most of the leading Music OCR programs
Cubase, a leading music sequencer program. A scorewriter, or music notation program, is Software used to automate the task of writing and engraving Sheet music. Finale is the flagship program of a series of proprietary Scorewriters created by MakeMusic for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X Sibelius is a Scorewriter program created by Sibelius Software, used in the music industry by Composers Arrangers and Music See also Optical character recognition Music OCR is the application of optical character recognition to interpret Sheet music or printed scores into Cubase is a computer program for music production/recording The program offers recording producing and mixing of sounds in order to make music production for distribution on CDs or the A music sequencer (also MIDI sequencer or just sequencer) is software or hardware designed to create and manage computer-generated music

The MusicXML standard is defined by a series of document type definitions (DTDs) which are each freely redistributable under the MusicXML Document Type Definition Public License. Document Type Definition ( DTD) is one of several SGML and XML schema languages and is also the term used to describe a document or portion thereof that

Example

Like all XML-based formats, MusicXML is easy for automated tools to parse and manipulate. Though it is possible to create MusicXML by hand, interactive score writing programs like Rosegarden and Finale greatly simplify the reading, writing, and modifying of MusicXML files. A scorewriter, or music notation program, is Software used to automate the task of writing and engraving Sheet music. Rosegarden is a Free software Digital audio workstation program developed for Linux with ALSA and KDE. Finale is the flagship program of a series of proprietary Scorewriters created by MakeMusic for Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X

The following example is a score consisting of a single whole note middle C in the key of C major. In Music, a whole note (American or "German" terminology or semibreve (British or "classical" terminology is a Note represented C or Do is the first Note of the fixed-Do Solfege. In Western Music, the expression " Middle C " refers to the note See also C minor, C-sharp minor C major (often just C or key of C) is a musical Major scale based on C

 <?xml version="1. 0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
 <!DOCTYPE score-partwise PUBLIC
     "-//Recordare//DTD MusicXML 2. 0 Partwise//EN"
     "http://www. musicxml. org/dtds/partwise. dtd">
 <score-partwise version="2. 0">
   <part-list>
     <score-part id="P1">
       <part-name>Music</part-name>
     </score-part>
   </part-list>
   <part id="P1">
     <measure number="1">
       <attributes>
         <divisions>1</divisions>
         <key>
           <fifths>0</fifths>
         </key>
         <time>
           <beats>4</beats>
           <beat-type>4</beat-type>
         </time>
         <clef>
           <sign>G</sign>
           <line>2</line>
         </clef>
       </attributes>
       <note>
         <pitch>
           <step>C</step>
           <octave>4</octave>
         </pitch>
         <duration>4</duration>
         <type>whole</type>
       </note>
     </measure>
   </part>
 </score-partwise>

The output in standard musical notation looks like this: c natural, clef treble in 4/4

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The following is a list of Document markup languages Well-known document markup languages HyperText Markup Language (HTML Mathematical The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of Document markup languages Please see the individual markup languages' articles for further information Notation Interchange File Format ( NIFF) is a Music notation file format used primarily for transferring music notation between different Scorewriters It

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