[MusicTlk] Question about XML music files

[Mike Jolls]

Ella Yu



When I was talking about “popular music”, I was referring to popular music of any genre.  The Chopin piece I cited is a popular work within the classical music genre.  Another example would be “Ring of Fire” within the country music genre.  Therefore, I was asking whether there were libraries that existed that a person could access in order to download XML music files which contain popular music from a variety of genres.



You are probably right that XML music files are not in high demand by the public.  That would probably be explained by the assumption that sighted people don’t ask for XML files because they can just read standard printed music.  Why would they need anything else?  And if that assumption is correct, then it’s logical to further assume that publishers see no need to make them available.  It wouldn’t surprise me, however, if publishers already store music in their internal libraries as XML formatted files.

In asking this question, I was hoping that an organization such as NFB or NLS was already doing the work of formatting XML music.  Or better yet, collecting pre-formatted XML music already built by the publishers, assuming this has already been done.



On a previous post, I asked about music enlargement software.  Someone replied about the Dancing Dots software.  After doing some research, I came to the conclusion that DD could read XML formatted files.  However, each piece of music would have to be converted to XML format.  This puts the responsibility of creating the music XML file squarely on the end-users shoulders.  They’d either have to know how to do this by themselves, or they’d have to pay someone (probably per piece of music) to do that.  The process of creating such music would be time consuming and likely expensive.



Therefore, having music in standard XML format in a library which was accessible to all low vison or blind musicians would streamline the process of getting and producing the desired music.  It could also open opportunities for other software that don’t currently exist.



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Subject: Re: [MusicTlk] Question about XML music files

XML files are actually quite difficult to find, as they're in
relatively low demand.  When you refer to "popular music", are
you referring to the
popular music genre or are you referring to well-known music in
any genre? The example you cited is classical music.
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Subject: [MusicTlk] Question about XML music files

This is a question to everyone on the list.

I’d like to know if there are existing libraries with popular
music that we can access that contains pre-built music files in
XML format.

For those that may not know, XML is a computer data format used
to store documents as a series of data attributes.  Each aspect
of a piece of music would be represented as an attribute in this
format (rests, whole notes, time signatures, accents, phrasing,
etc…).  A computer program could read such an XML file (say for
example, Chopin’s Nocturne in Eb Major #9).  After reading the
XML file, such a program could then graphically render the music
on a computer screen.

To do this, a library of music would need to be built which a
person could download from.  It would probably be a subscription
service.  Having downloaded the XML music file, computer software
would then perform the graphical rendering.

What I’m looking for is a library that is already preloaded with
XMl formatted music files.  Anybody know anything about this?

Thanks

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