Questions tagged [musicxml]

MusicXML is a digital sheet music exchange and distribution format. It is an example of a symbolic music format that represents musical features like pitches and rhythms, as opposed to audio music formats that represent sound. The format focuses on representing common Western music notation from the 17th century on, and is supported by over 160 music applications.

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parse .mxl file with Clojure

I would like to parse an .mxl file (MusicXML) with clojure So far i've seen a lot of tools to work with .xml files but I can't find a way to work with .mxl, maybe i should convert mxl to xml first but i don't know how to do that neither.
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TransformerFactory - avoiding network lookups to verify DTDs

I am needing to program for offline transformation of XML documents. I have been able to stop DTD network lookups when loading the original XML file with the following : DocumentBuilderFactory factory; factory =…
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Library for displaying music notation

Is there a simple way, whether through a web service or just a library, to write/display music notation with C#? I have some data and am wondering if there is a way to show a staff with the given notes on it. I've looked into MusicXML, but if I…
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Chinese 'jianpu' notation in MusicXML: Any example files, or notation tools?

I'm doing background research for a project to write a software tool that converts between Western music notation, and Chinese numbered 'jianpu' notation, and South Asian 'swara' notation systems. The use case is where a composer writes a score, in…
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How do I read midi / musicxml files in music21 for solo piano where there can be multiple notes in a voice simultaneously?

I have written a python script to process midi files with music21 and write again a midi file. This works if the solo piano is "simple" in the sense, that there are not multiple pitches / notes played simultaneously in a…
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How could one draw sheet music from MusicXML in Java?

I am currently working on a sight-reading app that requires display of musical notation; I am struggling to find a way to efficiently draw this in a JFrame. I am looking at the JFugue library to help with this, and the description of the class…
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Music21 - Python: COnvert musicxml to MIDI, mapping String info to channel

I took a look at the music21 documentation, but I don't know if what I am looking for is possible. For fretted instrument, musicXML can have a tag. I am looking to convert musicXML files with String infos in MIDI files, with string ID mapped to the…
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How to add a new Element to a musicXML tree in Python (elementtree)?

I am using Python to batch edit many musicXML files that currently look like this: ... -5 -9
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How specified in MusicXML

The MusicXML tutorial is not clear enough as to how the number in the element is initialized in MusicXML. Is it related to MIDI files? Because I have cross checked with different samples having the same time signatures and the number…
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Convert musicxml to wav?

How I can get a wav from a musicxml file ? I tried this javascript package. I am getting various errors, different for each file, but mostly "Cannot read property 'score-partwise' of undefined" . I can't seem to find anything else. Do you know…
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Segmentation marks in MusicXML

I am looking for a way to put segmentation marks in a musicXML file, which can be read by software such as musescore. Perhaps a large vertical line or a label above a note? Any ideas on how to mark a note in a simple way? I can write a lyric…
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Jfugue: Improper MusicXML Format

I'm working on a personal project in Java and I'm using JFugue to simplify music generation and playback. I'm trying to output a MusicXML file for each of my saved MIDI files so They can be viewed in Finale NotePad, but the MusicXML files that are…
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MusicXML units (position of elements in pixels)

I use audivers application to convert PDFs and Images to MusicXML. It give me some result. An for example this element after OMR: Polonaise in F…
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Android MusicXML parser

I build app for drawing notes in android using MusicXML and I look for some quality parser to extract all the necessary information to do it. How I can parse MusicXML (.mxl) in Android? (some library?)
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Limited sound output using the mingus python module

I'm trying to use the python (2.7) package mingus (0.4.2.3, latest in pypi) to parse a musicxml doc and turn that into midi output. I've hit a snag running midi_file_out.py from source: if __name__ == '__main__': from mingus.containers.NoteContainer…
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