MusicXML

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Introduction

The purpose of MusicXML, developed by Recordare and adopted by many vendors is a royalty-free XML schema for distributing and sharing interactive sheet music with a wide variety of musical applications.

“The MusicXML format represents common Western musical notation from the 17th century onwards. It lets you distribute interactive sheet music online, and to use sheet music files with a wide variety of musical applications. The MusicXML format is open for use by anyone under a royalty-free license, and is supported by over 150 applications.” (Recordare.com)

History and versions

All version are upwards compatible

  • MusicXML version 1.0 (Jan 2004)
  • MusicXML version 1.1 (May 2005)
  • MusicXML version 2.0 (July 2007)
  • MusicXML version 3.0 (Aug 2011): standard taxonomy of 886 instruments, more sheet music repertoires, more detailed features of common Western music notation.

Links

Official / standards