Re: Music Notation on the Web

Hi Tom,

>> But at the same time, all of the leading DAWs can display music data as a
score and print it out, and for those users MIDI is obviously sufficient.

And I respectfully disagree with this. I believe you will find that DAWs
that support notation all add additional private data beyond what is in MIDI
to make it work. I believe the same is true for Band-in-a-Box, as well as
for keyboard vendors who add their own proprietary extensions to MIDI for
on-screen notation display.

New notation applications these days like Notion and Scorio often implement
MusicXML file support before MIDI file support. MusicXML file import in
particular is usually much easier for notation programs to implement than
MIDI file import.

The basics of MusicXML are neither difficult nor complex. The complexity in
MusicXML comes from the complexity of the music notation that it is
modeling. Like MIDI, MusicXML is designed to support progressively more
complete implementations over time.

Best regards,

Michael Good
Recordare LLC
www.recordare.com