Chucky's Arrangement Mark-up Language

Musical notation expresses, in a visual rendering, a piece of music which is sophisticated enough to allow the playing of a symphony by two orchestras in an almost indistinguishable manner, yet flexible enough to allow an individual's performance to be distinctive. At the same time, it expresses a structure which is readily amenable to certain transformations with readily determined consequences.

So I'm trying to produce a mechanism for marking up music.

I want it to:

• Provide for logical navigation of the music
• Allow me to write music in different ways
  • Ordinary scores for teh symphony orchestra
  • words and music for singing
  • guitar chords and words
• Be in XML
• Allow transformations to be used for changing keys, turning a named chord into a complete polyphonic piece of music, etc.
• be cool and not too hard to understand as a writer of music

I think this will also allow for programs that print the music, and programs that play the musc, to share easily.

So where am I at?

well, as at 24 june 99 I have a couple of examples - a meaningless piece of music that could be written as a normal score, and "The house of the rising sun", as you might find it in a folk songs book.

I also have a slowly evolving a DTD