Re: musicXML: 2 staves, piano

[Paul Hodges]

I'm not the person of whom the question was asked, but I have myself 
just been asked about MusicXML export.

I am retired, with time on my hands, and have for some time used 
LilyPond to prepare music editions for the choir I sing in - so I am 
fluent with it for "straightforward" choral music with piano 
accompaniment (I've also made up percussion and harp parts which have 
been required).  My son is a concert pianist specialising in modern and 
contemporary music.  A composer he knew died last year; he had never 
acquired much of a following, and much of his music is unpublished, and 
much else only in facsimile of imperfect manuscripts.  So my son (who 
has been willed his manuscripts) is on a mission to arrange for some of 
his music to be typeset for possible publication.  He has asked other 
friends (who use I don't know what software), and I mentioned to him 
that I use LilyPond, and feel that it is capable of producing scores 
which are publication ready.  So he suggested I might like to try 
setting a piece for solo flute, which I have completed - and I then 
started on a much larger piece for two pianos.  Both pieces are 
stretching my knowledge of LilyPond, but with the help of this list I 
have been forging ahead.

My idea was simply to challenge myself, and if something useful came of 
it I'd be satisfied - even if it just ended up as a more legible edited 
score for a future typesetter.  It seems to me, though, that my score of 
the flute piece could be published, with perhaps some tweaks to fit a 
publisher's house style more closely, maybe using a different font (I've 
proffered alternatives).  Anyway, my son talked about it with a 
publisher earlier this week.  Out of the discussion came two questions: 
(1) could I change the glyphs for the treble clef and the accent, and 
(2) can I provide a MusicXML export.  On the second I mentioned that I 
don't believe a MusicXML export would fully represent the score (there 
are non-standard barlines, for instance, which are specially drawn; also 
some unusual brackets).

I don't know whether even a good MusicXML export would make my work 
usable when it otherwise might not be - I just pass on the story to 
illustrate a possible reason for wanting to try it.

Paul

On 25/09/2021 15:24:12, "Jean Abou Samra" <jean@abou-samra.fr> wrote:

>Hi Harm,
>
>Le 24/09/2021 à 22:52, Thomas Morley a écrit :
>>I was tempted to offer a very high bounty to get a working xml-export.
>>Alas, we already have
>>https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/issues/665 and the there
>>offered bounties are not that low ...
>
>Out of curiosity, what would be your own use case for MusicXML export?
>
>Cheers,
>Jean
>