%ISOlat1; %ISOlat2; ]> Music Notation - www.music-notation.info - Copyright 1997-2008, Gerd Castan Musical notation codes Index xml ascii binary 1. MidiXML 2. Apple GarageBand Format (.band) 3. SMDL 4. MPEG4-SMR 5. MNML - The Musical Notation Markup Language 6. MusicML 7. MHTML 8. MML: Music Markup Language 9. Theta: Tonal Harmony Exploration and Tutorial Assistent 10. ScoreML 11. JScoreML 12. eXtensible Score Language (XScore) 13. MusiXML: My own format 14. MusicXML 15. MusiqueXML 16. GUIDO XML 17. WEDELMUSIC 18. ChordML 19. ChordQL 20. NeumesXML 21. MEI 22. JMSL Score 23. minimusic 24. EMNML - Extensible Music Notation Markup Language 25. XMusic 26. SongWrite 27. Music Description Language (MDL) 28. Virtual Musician Markup Language (VMML) 29. Music Catalog (MusiCat) 30. CapXML 31. SVG: Scalable Vector Graphics 32. SMIL 1. PDF used as music notation format 2. DARMS 3. GUIDO Music Notation Language 4. abc 5. MusiXTeX, MusicTeX, MuTeX... 6. **kern 7. **Hildegard 8. **koto 9. **bol 10. Musedata format 11. LilyPond 12. Philip's Music Writer (PMW) 13. TexTab 14. Mup music publication program 15. NoteEdit 16. Liszt: The SharpEye OMR engine output file format 17. Enigma Transportable Format (ETF) 18. CMN: Common Music Notation 19. OMNL: Open Music Notation Language 20. Scot: A Score Translator for Music 11 21. PMX 22. CMME corpus mensurabilis musice electronicum 23. Nightingale Notelist 24. MusicKit ScoreFile 25. CHARM (Common Hierarchical Abstract Representation of Music) 26. Muscript 27. Gaayaka 28. Plaine and Easie 29. Clan Lord music notation 30. Parsons-Code 31. Leadsheet Notation 1. MIDI 2. QuickScore Elite file format (.qsd) 3. MusicWrite file format (.mwk) 4. Overture file format (.ove) 5. ScoreWriter file format (.scw) 6. Copyist file format (.CP6 and .CP4) 7. Rich MIDI Tablature format - RMTF 8. Creative Music File Format 9. Sibelius Plugin Interface 10. Finale Plugin Interface 11. Internal format of Finale (.mus) 12. XMF - eXtensible Music Format 13. NIFF 14. Internal format of Capella 15. SASL: Simple Audio Score Language 16. Music Publisher and Noteworthy 2 File Format (.nwc) 17. The SCORE format 18. RMF - Rich Music Format 19. The studio session song (SSS) file format 20. Guitar Pro File Format (.gtp, .gp3, .gp4) 21. TablEdit File Format (.tef) 22. Tilia: the file format of Lime 23. PowerTab 24. Old music formats Musical notation codes General information The most comprehensive literature is the book Beyond MIDI There is an overview The Computational Score by Francesco Giomi, Notation Theory Links and the Digital Media & Music Center pages of the University of Virginia Library. XML and Music is an overview by OASIS. Perry Roland: Extensible Markup Language for Music Information Retrieval This paper evaluates the role of standards in information exchange and suggests the adoption of Java standards for music representation and meta-data to serve as the basis for music information retrieval. A good source for file formats is www.wotsit.org/ . Among them there is a collection of music formats . Dot What!? also covers many file extensions. Visitor since 8. June 2002 Feedback (questions, suggestions, broken links): General information MIDI Your MIDI interface is too slow? MIDI.org has released a MIDI Over IEEE-1394 Specification in PDF. IEEE-1394 is also known as FireWire (Apple) and i-Link (Sony). It makes sense to replace the MIDI cable by IEEE-1394 and not by USB since FireWire is already used for media streams. FireWire is about 10000 times faster than a MIDI cable. Almost every scorewriter supports the MIDI file format: The official alt.music.midi FAQ: general info and frequenty asked questions , MIDI Farm , You should not attempt to use it to exchange data between score printing programs (and archives) if you have additional ways. Nevertheless, MIDI is the first data format a score printing program has to support. a good book on this topic is Musik-Programmierung . Beyond MIDI describes four extensions to MIDI but I found no applications of them on the internet * NoTaMIDI in Beyond MIDI chapter 3 * Expressive in Beyond MIDI chapter 4 * MIDIPlus in Beyond MIDI chapter 5 * Augmented MIDI in Beyond MIDI chapter 6 There is an IETF effort to standardize MIDI over RTP , for both interactive and streaming, see: An RTP Payload Format for MIDI by John Lazzaro and John Wawrzynek. FAQ: How do I convert a MIDI file to some sort of text representation , maintained by Rainer Typke. Programs exporting MIDI : Capella Windows capella Media Producer Windows capella-scan Windows Harmony Assistant - music composition and notation editing. Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X, Windows Melody Assistant Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows PDFtoMusic Pro music scanner Windows, Mac OS X PDFtoMusic music scanner Windows, Mac OS X SmartScore Professional Edition - Precision music scanning & world-class scoring. Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 SmartScore Songbook Edition - Limit: 3 staves Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 SmartScore Piano Edition - Limits: 2 staves / no text or lyrics / no TAB or percussion. Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 SmartScore Guitar Edition - Limits: 1 staff / No text or lyrics / no TAB or percussion. Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 SmartScore MIDI Edition - Limits: 4 staves / No text or lyrics / No printing / MIDI output only / no TAB or percussion. Windows, Mac OS X 10.4 PhotoScore Ultimate Windows, MacOS X PhotoScore MIDI Lite Windows, MacOS X AudioScore - music to score and music notation Windows Score Perfect Education Windows Score Perfect Professional Windows Score Perfect Standard Windows PriMus Windows WIDI Recognition System (Professional audio to MIDI converter) Windows, Mac OS X WIDI Recognition System (Standard audio to MIDI converter) Windows, Mac OS X WIDI Audio To MIDI VST Plugin (Windows Version) Windows WIDI Audio To MIDI VST Plugin (MAC OS X Version) Mac OS X WIDI Audio To MIDI Audio Unit (MAC OS X Version) Mac OS X Celemony Melodyne cre8 audio editor Windows, Mac OS X Celemony Melodyne studio audio editor Windows, Mac OS X visiv SharpEye Music Reader Windows, RISC OS Lime Music Notation Software Windows, Mac OS 7 through 9.x, Mac OS X Rosegarden - audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor Linux MusicKit - music programming library Objective C, Python, NeXT, Mac OS X, Windows, Linux/UNIX, OpenStep NoteWorthy Composer Windows Muscript - language for typesetting music Perl KGuitar Posix, QT, KDE, TSE, Linux 2.2, Linux 2.4, FreeBSD 4.4 / STABLE, Solaris (gcc) DixShtix - Java Music Library Java Django tablature editor and composer Windows Personal Composer - music notation, MIDI, sequencing Windows 95 or later Xenoage MusicXML Player Java JRE 1.4.2, Linux, Windows, Mac OS X 10.3 or higher Mozart - music notation software Windows MuseScore Linux, C++ pyScore Python, Linux, Mac OS X, Windows Guitar Pro - tablature editor Windows, Mac OS X ABC Plus (abcm2ps) - music notation software Mac OS X, Windows, x86 RPM based Linux, source code mTooth Mac OS X MagicScore Maestro - Music Notation Software for Musicians Windows MagicScore Classic - Music Notation Software for Musicians Windows MusiCAD score-editor Windows Overture 4 - music notation software Mac OS X, Windows ScoreWriter - music notation software (slimmed down from Overture) Mac OS X, Windows t-rox Studio Windows MIDI-Connections SCAN - optical music recognition Windows Impro-Visor - music notation software Java 1.5, NetBeans IDE 5.x, Polya Java Library, jMusic Java Library middle C software toolkit - optical music recognition Windows, Java, C/C++, Visual Basic Programs importing MIDI : Capella Windows capella Media Producer Windows Capella playAlong Windows Harmony Assistant - music composition and notation editing. Mac OS 8.6, Mac OS 9.x, Mac OS X, Windows Melody Assistant Mac OS 8, Mac OS 9, Mac OS X, Windows Score Perfect Education Windows Score Perfect Professional Windows Score Perfect Standard Windows PriMus Windows Notation Composer - music notation software Windows Notation Musician - music notation software Windows NCH Switch audio file format converter for Windows & Mac Windows, Mac OS X Celemony Melodyne cre8 audio editor Windows, Mac OS X Celemony Melodyne studio audio editor Windows, Mac OS X Progression - Music Software for Guitar Windows, Mac OS X Notion - Music Notation Software Mac OS X, Windows Beatnik mobileBAE audio engine Symbian, Nucleus RTOS , Windows Mobile, J2ME Lime Music Notation Software Windows, Mac OS 7 through 9.x, Mac OS X Rosegarden - audio and MIDI sequencer, score editor Linux