Music Markup Language (MML) was an early application of
XML
Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a markup language and file format for storing, transmitting, and reconstructing arbitrary data. It defines a set of rules for encoding documents in a format that is both human-readable and machine-readable. ...
to describe music objects and events. MML pioneered features commonly used in later music markup formalisms, such as the
IEEE 1599 standard. These features included the use of XML as a foundation; the ability to describe a musical object or event comprehensively (as opposed to merely providing a machine-readable format for a traditional musical score, or for a determinate sound recording of one performance); and the division of this comprehensive information into modules (often termed ''layers'' in later work), with separate modules for metadata, lyrics, notation, sound, and performance. MML makes it possible to state relationships among written
syllables,
phoneme
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For example, in most dialects of English, with the notable exception of the West Midlands and the north-wes ...
s,
notes
Note, notes, or NOTE may refer to:
Music and entertainment
* Musical note, a pitched sound (or a symbol for a sound) in music
* ''Notes'' (album), a 1987 album by Paul Bley and Paul Motian
* ''Notes'', a common (yet unofficial) shortened version ...
in traditional
musical notation
Music notation or musical notation is any system used to visually represent aurally perceived music played with instruments or sung by the human voice through the use of written, printed, or otherwise-produced symbols, including notation fo ...
,
pitch, and
rhythm
Rhythm (from Greek
Greek may refer to:
Greece
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*Greeks, an ethnic group.
*Greek language, a branch of the Indo-European language family.
**Proto-Greek language, the assumed ...
in a flexible and extensible way.
See also
*
HTML5 audio
HTML5 Audio is a subject of the HTML5 specification, incorporating audio input, playback, and synthesis, as well as speech to text, in the browser.
<audio> element
The element represents a sound, or an audio stream. It is commonly use ...
*
MusicXML
MusicXML is an XML-based file format for representing Western musical notation. The format iopen fully documented, and can be freely used under the W3C Community Final Specification Agreement.
History
MusicXML was invented by Michael Good and in ...
*
Music Encoding Initiative
References
XML-based standards
Musical markup languages
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