Music Notation Markup Language

[Guni]

Hi all,

I was doing some research about better ways of showing music notion online - creating images is just so inflexible. I stumbled across many sites that claim to work on all kinds of solutions, be it using XML, Java or browser plugins. But I got loads of broken links or 'Coming Soon' sites. It seems that this is still in its infancy as this article http://www.keyboardmag.com/features/netsmarts9812/netsmarts.shtml shows.

I know that there are some computer geeks among us. Is anyone involved in such a project? Has anyone tested some of the approaches out there? Any links, articles, tips are appreciated.

Thx

Guni

[george_menhorn]

The best program out there right now for doing music notation is Finale 2002. It supports web-publishing. There is also a free downloadable viewer which is a plug in to IE/Netscape :http://www.codamusic.com/coda/fin_viewer.asp

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George

[Guni]

Finale is a great program. I have an older version and use it all the time.

As soon as I hear 'browser plugin' I get a bit nervous as this, most of the time leads to compatibility problems (and there's only a Mac beta version for now).

I am just downloading the demo version and I will thoroughly test Coda's solution.

I just have the feeling that there must be a more global solution in development - a sytem that doesn't depend on browsers or plugins....

Guni