Re: The MusicXML challenge and Chords

One (not the only) ways we're working with non-representable music scores is providing a way of aligning an audio recording with analytical or musical semantic XML. For example, saying "This note (XML element) is at timepoint X in recording Y" allows us to markup an audio recording with music semantic structures without requiring it to be put into the whole measure/staff/voice structure imposed by standard understandings of how Common Practice notations work.

In other words, just because something can't be rendered programmatically doesn't mean it can't be described in a musically semantic way.

-Andrew

> On Oct 26, 2015, at 11:31 AM, Tristan Jakob-Hoff <classic@goldbug.org.uk> wrote:
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> Graphical scores like these are explicit rejections of notational convention.  You can be guaranteed that if such scores *were* possible to render using MusicXML, somebody would just write something that wasn't!
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dennis Bathory-Kitsz [mailto:bathory@maltedmedia.com] 
> Sent: 26 October 2015 16:50
> To: public-music-notation-contrib@w3.org
> Subject: Re: The MusicXML challenge and Chords
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> On Mon, October 26, 2015 12:37 pm, Sienna Wood wrote:
>> If content and layout are fused in certain kinds of music, are the 
>> needs of these styles/genres better met with graphics programs than 
>> with notation programs?
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> No. They are musical scores. Notation programs have already been ignoring more than half a century of musical developments. It would be distressing to imagine that approach being continued here into the 21st century.
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> A few examples...
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> Crumb:
> <http://40.media.tumblr.com/b755cf8cd1e90e2151100589c8400850/tumblr_n7g4f8trhG1qbdqqlo1_1280.jpg>
> Stockhausen:
> <http://image.slidesharecdn.com/2010vicstockhausenmsa10-130913103902-phpapp01/95/increasing-the-mobility-of-stockhausens-mobile-scores-2010-lindsay-vickery-29-638.jpg?cb=1379068927>
> Bil Smith:
> <http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-Xuc7pPkE3ZI/VKxeb8Pm47I/AAAAAAAAFjw/H_qr7SkYhkM/s1600/Venerate%2BSub%2B4.png>
> Kristina Wolfe:
> <http://www.kristinawolfemusic.com/Kristina_Wolfe/Projects/Entries/2013/11/5_Travels_through_the_east_files/Via%20Crucis.jpg>
> Me (substrate of a 3D score):
> <https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xat1/t31.0-8/11218571_10155454247555234_5658955241456708996_o.jpg>
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