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Enhancing Early Music Notation with XML and MusicXML: CMME Overview and Applications

This document discusses the Computerized Mensural Musical Editing (CMME) framework, which facilitates the encoding of multiple mensural notation systems using a unified XML-based approach. Developed by Theodor Dumitrescu, CMME allows for seamless interaction between various music notation programs, including MusicXML, which serves as a primary data interchange format. The paper highlights the goals, history, and current status of CMME and MusicXML, including their application in music publishing and educational software, as well as their contribution to early music research and performance practice.

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Enhancing Early Music Notation with XML and MusicXML: CMME Overview and Applications

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  1. XML and MusicXML Music 253/CS 275A Stanford University

  2. XML-based codes: CMME for virtual editions (early music) • Corpus MensurabilisMusicarum(est. 1998) Est. and built by Theodor Dumitrescu, Oxford-Utrecht-Berkeley) Goal: One encoding, multiple systems of notation for mensural notation cmme.org From The Virtual Score. Used by permission.

  3. CMME (2013) • Computerized Mensural Musical Editing • Based on Utrecht • Marnix van Berchum (director from 2012--) • Home of “The Other Josquin” [attribution study] • Source code publicly available (GNU license) at https://github.com/tdumitrescu/cmme-editor 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

  4. CMME today 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

  5. MusicXML vis-à-vis MuseData MuseData MusicXML 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

  6. image from: http://recordare.com/xml.html Purpose • Primary function of MusicXML is data interchange between programs: Finale Guido MuseData MuseScore Sibelius Humdrum SCORE Lilypond • Designed for encoding common-practice western music notation. 2008 Craig Stuart Sapp; rev. esf 2010

  7. MusicXML: History • Developed from 2001 by Michael Good • DistribRecordare(2002-2011) • V. 1: platform-specific (2004) • V. 2: Java (2007) • V. 3: Java (2011) • Sold as add-on to Finale, Sibelius et al. • Sold to MakeMusic (Finale) in 2011 • Native in Finale; more limited capabilities in Sibelius • No longer has public DTD NAMM 2011 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

  8. MusicXML: Main Aims • Nexus of all notation interchange schemes • Commercially based • In use over past decade by many small sw companies and a few music publishers (inc. Hal Leonard) 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

  9. Current status (v. 3.0, 2013 • http://www.makemusic.com/musicxml/specification/dtd • Partwise/timewise conversion (v. 1.0) • “Common” DTD (v. 3.0) • Sound: timbral recognition (sounds.xml, v. 3.0) • MIDI: in absolute or delta times (v. 3.0) • Layout module (v.1.1): formatting data as elements • Notes et al: some support for recent music, no semantic support for early music 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

  10. MusicXML: basic file structure • Row-column rotation handled through XSLT stylesheets • (partwisevstimewise) • Score/part/measure elements at top of file • Lots of metadata fields possible in score header 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

  11. MusicXML: MIDI interface 2013 Eleanor Selfridge-Field

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