MusicXML

MusicXML is an open, XML-based music notation file format.

It was developed by Recordare, 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 musical scores, particularly between different Scorewriters.

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.

=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 scorewriter programs like Rosegarden and Finale notation program greatly simplify the reading, writing, and modifying of MusicXML files.

The following example is a score consisting of a single, whole note middle C in the key of C major.

Music 1 0 4 4 G 2 C 4 4 whole

What you get looks like this:

=See also=

*List of document markup languages *Comparison of document markup languages *NIFF

=External links=

*[http://musicxml.org/xml.html MusicXML homepage] *[http://www.recordare.com/dtds/index.html MusicXML DTD index] *[http://www.recordare.com/dtds/license.html MusicXML Document Type Definition Public License]