Use Cases

Hi Group,

Thank you for your patience! It's taken rather longer than I would have
liked, due to my being sidelined by illness for a while, but with the
co-chairs' help I've prepared an initial list of annotated use cases on the
Music Notation CG wiki at this URL:

https://www.w3.org/community/music-notation/wiki/MusicXML_Use_Cases#Use_Cases

We are eager to generate some feedback and additional depth for the
existing cases, and also to add cases that we have overlooked. New material
can be added directly in the wiki page by editing it using your W3C
account. Please follow the existing formatting by italicizing use case
headings and adding indented notes or descriptions below these headings.

The chairs have a couple of requests to frame this phase of the discussion:

- Let's avoid debates on what is in or out of scope. That will come later.
Undoubtedly not everything will be in scope, but we first want to collect
all the ideas worth collecting.

- For the moment, we would like to focus mostly on what users are doing
with musical documents, and return to the question of the nature of the
musical content itself at a later point (CMN, neumes, mensural,
contemporary, arbitrary graphics...).

I'm very much looking forward to this exchange!

Best,

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