Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!mcsun!ukc!edcastle!lfcs!nick From: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Methods for music encoding? Message-ID: <1634@castle.ed.ac.uk> Date: 16 Jan 90 12:07:58 GMT References: <430@helios.prosys.se> Reply-To: nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk (Nick Rothwell) Organization: LFCS Enya Admiration Society Lines: 19 In-reply-to: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) In article , peter@ficc (Peter da Silva) writes: >There are two documented formats for storing musical scores that I know of: >... >International MIDI Association MFF (Midi File Format), which is related >to IFF (somewhat simplified and with alignment restrictions dropped). Except that MFF only records and timestamps MIDI data, from which it is presumably an extremely difficult task to derived a score (for example, you don't have any repeated segments, or most of the notational symbols). > _--_|\ Peter da Silva. +1 713 274 5180. . Nick. -- Nick Rothwell, Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science, Edinburgh. nick@lfcs.ed.ac.uk !mcvax!ukc!lfcs!nick ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ ~~ "...all these moments... will be lost in time... like tears in rain."