Fork of MusicXML Test Suite

[Michael Scott Cuthbert]

Dear Lilypond developers,

I’m the principal developer of music21, a python-based toolkit for 
computational musicology and musical analysis which interfaces with MusicXML 
and some aspects of lilypond (output; no input).  In order to test musicxml 
input and output, I’ve long relied upon the Lilypond MusicXML Test Suite.  
There are some aspects that are missing or incorrectly encoded in it, so I’ve 
asked Reinhold Kainhofer if he minded if I forked the MIT-licensed test suite 
so that it could be edited separately from contributing directly to Lilypond 
(or to music21).  He had no objections, so I’ve started to work on the project 
at:

https://github.com/cuthbertLab/musicxmlTestSuite

Most of my work will be in testing aspects of MusicXML that are not in the 
current test suite, along with testing new MusicXML 3.0 changes to the 
specification.

(as an aside. in case anyone is interested in borrowing from or working on the 
music21 (abc, musicxml, noteworthy, cappella) to Lilypond code, it’s at 
https://github.com/cuthbertLab/music21/tree/master/music21/lily)

Thanks for letting me pop on the list.  Long a fan of the great musical 
typography of Lilypond.

Best,
Michael Cuthbert