News

These are some news items, blog posts, press releases, and social media posts of interest to the Music Notation Community Group.

Music Notation CG

MakeMusic Transfers MusicXML Development to W3C: press release, PDF (MakeMusic.com)
- HTML version: (BusinessWire.com)
Steinberg Is Founding Member of New W3C Music Notation Community Group: Steinberg press kit, ZIP (Steinberg.net)
- HTML version: (PRWeb.com)
- Steinberg Is Founding Member of W3C Music Notation Community Group: HTML version posted by Marc van den Hurk (GearJunkies.com)
Hal Leonard Joins W3C Music Notation Community Group as Founding Member: press release (HalLeonard.com)
Standards Take One Giant Step: blog post by Joe Berkovitz (Noteflight.com)
SMuFL development moves to new W3C Music Notation Community Group: blog post by Daniel Spreadbury (SMuFL.org)
MakeMusic and Steinberg transfer development of MusicXML and SMuFL to web community group: blog post by Philip Rothman (SibeliusBlog.com)
The next Web standard could be music notation: blog post by Peter Kirn (CreateDigitalMusic.com)
Steinberg Facebook post: “We've teamed up with MakeMusic and Noteflight to create a new W3C Community Group for standardizing music notation in the digital world. More soon!”, social media (Facebook.com)
Steinberg is founding member of W3C Music Notation Community Group: article (Rekkerd.org)
Web standard in progress for music notation!: forum post by wolftune (MuseScore.org)
W3C Twitter post: “#w3ccommunity Introducing the Music Notation Community Group”, social media (Twitter.com)

Web MIDI and More Surprises You Didn’t Expect From Yamaha’s Reface: blog post by Peter Kirn (CreateDigitalMusic.com), on native Web MIDI support in a synth keyboard