MakeMusic makes a great move in hiring Good
MakeMusic, the company behind Finale, has entered into an agreement to purchase Recordare. You can see the press release here but here's the really important part (hyperlinks mine): Under the terms of...
View ArticleMXMLiszt article published
If anyone's truly bored, an article of mine about MXMLiszt has been published through OCLC Systems & Services. Here's the citation: Nitin Arora, (2011) "MXMLiszt: a preliminary MusicXML digital...
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museline: charting melodic contours via web service
In the last post, I mentioned I was playing with Google App Engine and Google Chart Tools. Last night, with some silly movie streaming in the background, I was in bed tinkering with a little idea that...
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museline: trying to add support for compressed MusicXML
Just a quick follow up to the last post about using Google Chart Tools to outline melodic contours from MusicXML files … I wanted to add support for compressed MusicXML files in addition to the...
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music notation frustrations and what's on my programming plate
I haven't been blogging as much lately it seems. But I probably will be doing more soon as I'm wrapping up a new version of PubMed2XL. And that will also entail updating the documentation and even the...
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a follow up to my MuseScore and LilyPond musings from the previous post
Just a quick follow up to the last post about MuseScore, LilyPond, and my desire to get LilyPond output without entering the music natively as LilyPond syntax. After some minor tests, it looks like the...
View ArticleLilyPond: explicit initial durations for a second voice and thanks to...
Happy Holidays, humbug, and stuff. I'm in a coffee shop working on finalizing some pitches and durations for some pieces I'm working on for solo guitar. I'm hoping I can have the fingerings and...
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discourteous accidentals
Earlier today I was proofreading the four pieces I'm writing to make sure I place courtesy accidentals where appropriate – as in where I deem them appropriate. As the name implies, courtesy...
View ArticleMonster Serials: listening to old radio plays while working on music notation
There are a lot of things I can do while having music, mostly classical, on in the background. Working on music notation is not one of them. I don't mean composing the notes themselves – for that I...
View ArticleMuSEarch: searching within embedded MuseScore.com scores
OK, gonna try and keep this short. I've been obsessing the last few days over the Christmas holiday on this micro-project/demo … i.e. I been working from morning until midday and taking a shower and...
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