Music Representation of Score, Sound, MIDI, Structure and Metadata All Integrated in a Single Multilayer Environment Based on XML - Intelligent Music Information Systems: Tools and Methodologies - page 329

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for music typing and publishing. Another
key element is transferring music notation
among different score writers.

1

XML stands for eXtensible Markup Lan-
guage. XML is a W3C-recommended gen-
eral-purpose markup language for creating
special-purpose markup languages.

6

Current MX release, namely version Release
Candidate 1 (RC1), was updated in March
2007.

7

ETF stands for Enigma Transportable File,
a format produced by the well-known nota-
tion software MakeMusic Finale. An ETF
file mainly contains score information.

2

Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers Standards Association, Project
Approval Request 1599.

3

Here and in the following examples, we
refer to the aria “E lucean le stelle…” from
Giacomo Puccini's Tosca . The iconographic
material shown in this paper and in the
software applications we will describe is
property of Archivio Storico Ricordi (Milan,
Italy) and is copyrighted.

8

OMR stands for Optical Music Recognition.

9

http://www.ricordi.it.

10

As a matter of fact, MX Navigator at the
moment has been employed in three other
exhibitions, with different music contents:
“Antonio Vivaldi e il suo tempo” (National
Library of Turin, February - June 2006),
“Ottobre: Piovono Libri” (Bari, October
2006), and “Celeste Aida” (Teatro alla Scala,
Milan, December 2006 - January 2007).

4

In piano pieces by Claude Debussy, piano
part is sometimes arranged in three staves
(e.g., in the piece entitled D'un cahier
d'esquisses ).

11

http://www.recordare.com/xml.html.

5

NIFF stands for Notation Interchange File
Format. It is a file format primarily designed