7 Feb
2008
7 Feb
'08
9:20 a.m.
Hello everyone.
I would like to start storing music (as in scores) in a electronic
format. There seem to be quite a few of them around. I want something
that's free, open, and in common use. What formats do people on this
list use?
Thanks in advance.
Simon
7 Feb
7 Feb
9:29 a.m.
Hello Simon,
Check <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_notation#Computer_musical_notation>
for some. There's also CSound score files as well. I believe that it
goes from ABC to CSound in descending order of human readability. If
you want to register tonal music, I guess that ABC and Lilypond are
probably the best choices.Whatever format you choose, there's always a
compromise between expressiveness and readability.
I hope it helps,
Cheers,
Pedro
On Feb 7, 2008 2:18 PM, Simon Williams <simon(a)systemparadox.co.uk> wrote:
Hello everyone.
I would like to start storing music (as in scores) in a electronic
format. There seem to be quite a few of them around. I want something
that's free, open, and in common use. What formats do people on this
list use?
Thanks in advance.
Simon
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10:17 a.m.
IMHO the best is MusicXML; look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML.
Its in activ development and supported by many commercial and open source
programs (MuseScore)
Werner
On Donnerstag 07 Februar 2008, Simon Williams wrote:
Hello everyone.
I would like to start storing music (as in scores) in a electronic
format. There seem to be quite a few of them around. I want something
that's free, open, and in common use. What formats do people on this
list use?
Thanks in advance.
Simon
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10:56 a.m.
Hi Simon!
I think with lilypond you wouldn't go wrong. You can convert it to MIDI (to
an extend) and you can make sheet music of it.
For ABC: I know you can convert it to MIDI, I don't know about sheet music
and human-readability.
For Lilypond I believe there are also graphical editors making it easier
for you. But don't nail me on this. :-)
Kindest regards
Julien
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4:27 p.m.
Werner Schweer wrote:
IMHO the best is MusicXML; look at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML.
Its in activ development and supported by many commercial and open source
programs (MuseScore)
Julien Claassen wrote:
I think with lilypond you wouldn't go wrong. You
can convert it to MIDI (to
an extend) and you can make sheet music of it.
For ABC: I know you can convert it to MIDI, I don't know about sheet music
and human-readability.
For Lilypond I believe there are also graphical editors making it easier
for you. But don't nail me on this. :-)
So it's down to Lilypond vs MusicXML. I think I prefer MusicXML as a
format, but the main thing now is a good editor and viewer for it.
What I need is something good at displaying the music for playing from-
so something which has page turning with arrow keys or something
sensible, also transposition would be good. It also needs to be able to
work well with chord notation above the music, as I use that a fair bit
(I'm not very good at reading music- at the moment I read the chord for
the notes and use the score for rhythm).
I've got musescore at the moment, but it's a bit cumbersome to use, and
isn't suitable for playing from at all.
Any suggestions?
Thanks.
Simon
5:02 p.m.
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Simon Williams wrote:
| Werner Schweer wrote:
|> IMHO the best is MusicXML; look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MusicXML.
|> Its in activ development and supported by many commercial and open source
|> programs (MuseScore)
|
| Julien Claassen wrote:
|> I think with lilypond you wouldn't go wrong. You can convert it to MIDI (to
|> an extend) and you can make sheet music of it.
|> For ABC: I know you can convert it to MIDI, I don't know about sheet music
|> and human-readability.
|> For Lilypond I believe there are also graphical editors making it easier
|> for you. But don't nail me on this. :-)
|
| So it's down to Lilypond vs MusicXML. I think I prefer MusicXML as a
| format, but the main thing now is a good editor and viewer for it.
|
You know, part of it depends on what you are doing. You might
think about all of them for different things. For example, I
need to keep track of a lot of fiddle tunes. I have tried lilypond
for that, but abc is good enough and much simpler. Your
file manager or make should know how to create a pdf from
whatever format you choose.
You could try Quanta for editing MusicXML. It's not a music
editor, but it's a generic XML editor, which seems more like
what you will want anyway.
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5:03 p.m.
KDE's "noteedit" handles MusicXML.
http://noteedit.berlios.de/download.html
It is probably pre-packaged in your distro.
Le jeudi 07 février 2008 à 20:25 +0000, Simon Williams a écrit :
I've got musescore at the moment, but it's a
bit cumbersome to use,
and
isn't suitable for playing from at all.
Any suggestions?
5:10 p.m.
Hi,
KDE's "noteedit" handles MusicXML.
http://noteedit.berlios.de/download.html
It is probably pre-packaged in your distro.
or better try its successor cantorus. AFAIR it's available for Qt 4 so it does
not depend on KDE.
Best regards,
ce
8 Feb
8 Feb
2:53 p.m.
Hi,
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:55:52PM +0100, Julien Claassen wrote:
For ABC: I know you can convert it to MIDI, I
don't know about sheet music
and human-readability.
I've used ABC(+) a lot, it's easy to learn, compact, and you get MIDI
files and nice looking sheets. You can even set complex pieces. On the
other hand, each of the conversion tools seem to interpret abc a little
bit differently, so if you want MIDI and sheets of complex pieces,
you might run into spending several hours trying to find a variant that
works with both (there is a cpp-like pre-processor available, but :-( ).
IIRC it has originally been developed for folk tunes, so if you want
to set melodic music with guitar chords (and optionally tin-whistle
tabulature) it's worth a try.
Jacob
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