Dynamics Adrian has added the work to date on dynamics to the specification. After further discussion in the meeting today, we have settled on a system that provides four dynamic types: immediate, gradual, relative, accent. For the case of fp … Continue reading →

Dynamics Following some feedback from Robert Patterson on our proposal for how to encode dynamics, we agreed that we would change gradual dynamics to express their extent using measure position instead of duration. This is both consistent with how octave … Continue reading →

Dynamics Adrian has put together a proposal for the encoding of dynamics (issue #518) which is now ready for community feedback. However, we quickly got involved in discussing the text object, and how it didn’t feel quite right that in … Continue reading →

Daniel, Adrian and Karim were unable to meet, but Karim has provided the following MusicXML update. MusicXML The new MusicXML docs site (issue #644) is fully functional and pending some cosmetic fixes before we can deploy it live. We’ve received … Continue reading →

MNX We began the meeting with a quick summary of the changes Adrian has made since our last meeting: Adrian has also updated MNX in notationref to account for these changes. We spent the majority of the time resuming our … Continue reading →

GitHub organisational changes We believe that any remaining issues arising from the move from the w3c GitHub organisation to w3c-cg have now been resolved. However, we think that there is more we could do in future to protect against these … Continue reading →

Fermatas Fermatas (issue #106) are now complete, and can be found in the specification here. One missing detail is that we do not currently encode both the orientation of the fermata relative to the staff as well as the direction … Continue reading →

GitHub organisation changes The W3C has decided to migrate Community Group GitHub repositories from the w3c organisation to the w3c-cg organisation, to make their status clearer. This results in the public URLs for specifications etc. having changed. In general this … Continue reading →

Meetings We have decided to move the co-chair meeting to a bi-weekly cadence on Wednesdays, starting 8 April 2026. Our Tuesday meetings will remain, but will be purely focused on MNX specification issues. MusicXML Karim has started working on the … Continue reading →

Community Group meeting A reminder that we will have a virtual meeting next Tuesday, 17 March 2026 at 4pm UTC to which all Community Group members are invited. This meeting is a chance for the co-chairs to provide an update … Continue reading →