We hope this expanded introduction will help newcomers to MNX understand both the motivations for and the benefits of the new format. Pull request #302 has been merged, which updates the introductory page of the MNX Specification to provide some additional context about the reasons why MNX exists. The next co-chairs’ meeting will be on Thursday 20 July 2023.Ĭategory Minutes Co-chair meeting minutes: June 22, 2023 count will be an integer and corresponds to the numerator unit will be an enumeration, though the enumeration values will themselves be integers (1 = whole note, 2 = half note, 4 = quarter note, etc.), so a time signature of 3/4 will have a count value of 3 and a unit value of 4.Īdrian will work on updating the MNX specification and the example documents to reflect this change, and raise an issue for the many aspects of time signature encoding that remain to be decided.

We decided to use an object with two keys, count and unit. Although there was much lively discussion about the complexities of representing irrational meters, additive meters, and beaming, in order to come up with something simple that we can build on later, we focused on the simplest possible case of a single time signature with a standard numerator and denominator, e.g. We spent the meeting discussing the microsyntax for time signatures, which needs replacing following the decision to avoid these as far as possible (see discussion #293). Publish Reports Co-chair meeting minutes: July 6, 2023 final reports / licensing info dateĬhairs, when logged in, may publish draft and final reports. Although W3C hosts these conversations, the groups do not necessarily represent the views of the W3C Membership or staff. Note: Community Groups are proposed and run by the community. W3c/musicxml w3c/mnx w3c/smufl Group's public email, repo and wiki activity over time The group is proposing the development of an additional new specification to provide a standard, machine-readable source of musical instrument data. The group is developing a new specification to embody this broader set of use cases and technologies, under the working title of MNX.

The goals are to evolve the specifications to handle a broader set of use cases and technologies, including use of music notation on the web, while maximizing the existing investment in implementations of the existing MusicXML and SMuFL specifications. The Community Group documents, maintains and updates the MusicXML and SMuFL (Standard Music Font Layout) specifications. The group aims to serve a broad range of users engaging in music-related activities involving notation, and will document these use cases.

The Music Notation Community Group develops and maintains format and language specifications for notated music used by web, desktop, and mobile applications.

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