Notation and Analysis

MusicXML for Notation and Analysis

Michael Good

Recordare LLC
PO Box 3459
Los Altos, CA 94024

Reprinted with permission from The Virtual Score: Representation, Retrieval, Restoration, Walter B. Hewlett and Eleanor Selfridge-Field, eds., MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2001, pp. 113-124. Computing in Musicology 12. Copyright © 2001 Center for Computer Assisted Research in the Humanities.

Abstract

MusicXML is intended to represent common western musical notation from the seventeenth century onwards, including both classical and popular music. MusicXML is intended to support interchange between musical notation, performance, analysis, and retrieval applications. It is designed to be sufficient, not optimal, for these applications.


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