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Hi Kevin, Thanks for the reference. I have the Ross book but had missed that page. It's interesting to see he agrees with Read on the "plop" and "doit". But both Read and Ross are older books so I'm wondering how usage may have changed since then. I've also asked this on the Finale list, and Chuck I...

Hi Chris,

Thanks for pointing this out! Yes, the tuplet problems you see in the Ave Maria sample are due to a bug in Dolet's tuplet handling. We hope to have this fixed in the next maintenance release, and we'll update the sample file accordingly.

Thanks, Michael

Slide and glissando are both used depending on the instrument. But in MusicXML we are reserving those terms for determinate glisses/slides between two notes. Here we are looking for slides/glisses that are associated with a single note, with an interdeterminate starting or stopping point before or a...

Are there generic names for sliding into a note from above, or sliding out of a note to a higher pitch? In English, the term "scoop" seems fairly common for sliding into a note from below, and "fall-off" for sliding out of a note to a lower pitch. But slides from or to higher pitches seem less commo...

Hi Jane, Getting a list of notes from XPath should be just as straightforward as getting a list of measures. You should not have to iterate over the measures, and then over the notes. If you can send the current XPath (or set of XPaths) that you are using, I'll see if I can send you some simpler / m...

Here is the current proposal to add more guitar tab support to MusicXML. There is a draft version of the 0.6c DTD available at: http://www.recordare.com/dtds/06c/musicxml.zip The individual DTD files are also at their expected places in this directory. Most of the changes are in note.dtd, with some ...

Welcome to the MusicXML list. This group is intended to discuss MusicXML and the software that supports it. To give some general background: MusicXML is a universal translator for common Western musical notation from the 17th century onwards. It is designed as an interchange format for notation, ana...