Sunday, December 1, 2002

I've been thinking a lot about representing music in XML. There is a good survey of this topic here. MusicXML seems to be fairly dominant, and is getting commercial support behind it. Although, it isn't terribly easy to read and is quite verbose, it looks like a good interchange format, which is certainly a good use of XML. Still, it is overkill for how I want to use XML to represent music. My application is representing Jazz tunes, which consist of chords, melody, and sometimes lyrics. I would like to develop a library of arrangements of Jazz tunes in XML format. Here's an example of the tune All The Things You Are encoded in what I'll call "TuneXML" format. 10:44:45 AM    comment []

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