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Reputation: 12877

Digital format of piano / sheet music scores?

Is there any accepted standards regarding how sheet music or piano scores are stored mathematically instead of as images or PDFs?

Everything thereof are digitally represented such as in an XML or something, so when one needs, he or she can easily manipulate the music itself instead of just editing a PostScript image.

Any such format existing and the license to use to carry music scores?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1149

Answers (2)

dsz
dsz

Reputation: 5222

While MusicXML is parhaps the common standard and most flexible, it's also worth mentioning ABC Notation and LilyPond. These (especially ABC) read more like English, and are more amenable to source control. When I just want to do "a little bit of music", I tend to reach for ABC these days, like for just writing scales to practice on my sax. ABC has been around for a very long time, is quite powerful, and has quite an ecosystem around it - JavaScript libraries, lots of Linux command line tools (convert to PDF, SVG, etc.) If you happen to be into Irish folk music, ABC has an enormous collection online.

Upvotes: 0

Daniel F. Thornton
Daniel F. Thornton

Reputation: 3685

You are looking for musicXML. It's the common format used by the major music notation software packages, like Finale and Sibelius.

Upvotes: 4

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