MusicXML 4.0 The following four issues have been closed: #259: XML catalogs #335: Resuming pedal lines #339: Documentation for system-layout #382: Documentation for the Note names notehead supplement SMuFL range The issue concerning Roman numerals for harmonic analysis (#295) is … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 The following issues have been closed since the last co-chairs meeting: #28: Clarifying the musical location for an offset at the end of the measure #294: listen, listening and player elements #307: Polychord and alternate bass notes for … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 Michael has closed seven issues since the last meeting: #43: placement of dynamics #146: documentation of the level element #205: documentation of how to handle redundant guitar tab staves in documents that encode notation+tab #285: fixing imported schema … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 Issues #261 (lyric alignment), #282 (adding part name as a credit-type), #302 (discontinue type for pedal lines), #310 (measure numbering for multiple rests), #333 (clarifying the documentation for the transpose element), #349 (clarifying the interaction in the harmony … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 Pull requests for issues #37 and #23 have been completed and merged, so those issues are now complete. There has been some good discussion on issues #305 and #351 concerning the layout of percussion kits and staves, but … Continue reading →

SMuFL 1.4 Daniel has been working on some of the remaining issues and still expects to complete the outstanding work before the end of the year as planned. MusicXML 4.0 Issue #37 concerning notations shown above or below the staff … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 Issue #283 concerning the representation of swing in MusicXML has now had its corresponding pull request merged. Issue #345 concerning updating the level of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols that can be used in the play element … Continue reading →

SMuFL 1.4 There are currently 21 pull requests waiting to be merged, which constitute the majority of the issues targeted for this milestone. A couple of late-breaking issues (#156 and #157) concerning the final completion of the two oustanding ranges … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 Michael is next going to submit a pull request for issue #336 for figured bass placement, and then will tackle another issue in an area unrelated to the most recent work on enharmonic spelling and transformation. Although he’s … Continue reading →

MusicXML 4.0 Pull request #340, which addresses issues #279 for representing transpositions in concert pitch scores, #55 for differences in clef between concert and transposing scores, and #39 for octave transpositions in concert scores, has been merged. One further issue … Continue reading →