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Thank you Mogens, This is a better way to do the search, but I do feel that the http://www.musicxml.com site should deal exclusively in MusicXML! I really want + signs between whole time signatures as in the attached picture I can use multiple time signatures but 'time-relation' does not include a p...

If I go to http://www.musicxml.com and do a search I get hits from finale documentation which swamp the musicxml hits which I want. For instance if you search for "time-signature" you get pages and pages of finale documentation hits and it's difficult to find the MusicXML specification of ...

Is there a way of notating in MusicXML the multiple time signatures with + between as at the top of p.180 in Gould?
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James Sutton

I see. It is a little confusing but I see the motivation now.
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James

There are various places in the sample XML files where the <forward> element seems to be used illogically. For instance in BrahWiMeSample.xml line 1057 <measure number="3" width="217"> <forward> <duration>32</duration> <voice>1</voice> <staff>1</staff> </forward> <backup> <durati...

In MusicXML 4.0 could we have a type attribute in the <direction><direction-type><words> element to indicate what sort of words they are? Normally markings such as cresc. and dim. are represented in <words> elements and as dynamics these need to be aligned with other dynamics instructions, e.g. pp, ...

Hi John, What you are proposing is by no means simple! Especially if you want to implement a graphical user interface allowing the user to place notes on a stave. You could consider using a simple textual description of the music like Lilypond or Opusmodus (opusmodus.com) and convert that to MusicXM...

In the Saltarello sample there are 2 <ending> elements in bar 9, the second of which is a discontinue on the right barline. To my mind this is not correctly represented in Saltarello.png which shows the second time bar bracket covering bar 9 and bar 10 with a vertical jog at both ends. I think the x...

Hi, I have searched in vain for a direction-type element for the sostenuto and una corda (soft) piano pedals (viz. Gould p.333). The pedal direction-type seems to be only for notating the sustaining pedal. I notice that they are included in the sound element, but not in the pedal direction-type, or ...

I need "accidental-value" definitions for the microtone accidentals which consist of a double-sharp or a double-flat with up or down arrows, but they are not there. I know this topic has been touched on before, but is there any specific plan to add these in a forthcoming release of the spe...