Re: Suggestions for participating institutions?

[Reinhold Kainhofer]

Regarding MusicXML support: Michael Good, the creator of MusicXML, is 
now working for MakeMusic (the creators of Finale), and the way I 
understood his comments on the MusicXML mailing list he would be very 
interested in LilyPond having MusicXML export functionality, too.  Maybe 
you can even get him on board.

Reinhold

On 2013-03-26 18:27, David Kastrup wrote:> We would extend LilyPond to 
be able to directly export MusicXML and use
> MusicXML as an input language.  Scores submitted to the "Mutopia 2" in
> LilyPond format would be available in newer versions via convert-ly.
> Verification of proper convert-ly could be done by comparing the
> resulting MusicXML, if the conversion failed, at least delivering the
> MusicXML as proper LilyPond files are, due to the continuing evolution
> of the language, somewhat precarious as a long-term archival format.
>
> Defining standard MusicXML readings of LilyPond files and, if necessary,
> at a later point of time defining convertible newer format versions that
> would be convertable forward (and back?) with a more reliable mechanism
> than convert-ly would also be necessary.
>
> For the whole XML-centric and web-centric workflows we'd have a
> significant amount of convertibility from cash into results (those are
> mainstream frameworks and as such there are capacities on the free
> market).
>
> Getting LilyPond and MusicXML into a closer relation and providing end
> user accessible web entry inputs would be possible by players like
> Scorio.com, and Philomelos, and they have quite a bit to gain by getting
> a larger corpus of LilyPond-friendly MusicXML into their grasp.  If we
> can get something like Steinberg into the same boat (without sinking it)
> for playing a more generally useful MusicXML game, this could also be
> interesting.
>
> This could move to a very big framework of a reliably archivable
> MusicXML version and surrounding free toolchains, with other notesetting
> programs being able to compete on their own merits on the same publicly
> accessible MusicXML database.
>
> One would need to flesh out work flows and dependencies of particular
> milestones and targets in order to arrive at a good distribution of
> tasks and competency.
>


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