An elegant and simple format without boiler plates.

Bagpipe music writer format for Highland bagpipe music.

The CMME format is an XML-based format developped for the Computerized Mensural Music Editing project. It can be imported into Verovio as of version 4.4. Modern workflows convert CMME XML files into Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) mensural or MEI Common Music Notation (CMN), allowing legacy CMME files to be rendered inside modern notation software like MuseScore.

Compressed xml

mxl is compressed form of musicxml.

A flexible image format that supports multiple layers and channels with lossless compression.

MEI is inspired by XML format. The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven, open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure.

MuseScore studio format for notion, in uncompressed form (mscx) and compressed form (mscz). The MSCX is inspired by xml but without header boiler plate.

Music notation graph

A special format made for transmitting music digitally. It is capable but has excessive amount of document boilerplates. There are part wise and time wise.

Notation interchange file format is obsolete file transfer format. It is the first. It is largely replaced by other modern ones.

The Plaine & Easie Code is a text-based system that uses a simple typewriter to write out music.

Reflowable graphic format useful for reformatting synthetic music score.

Humdrum data is an analytic music code for transcribing fully polyphonic textures. Humdrum syntax presents notes of the score in strict time sequence. Each data row represents all notes sounding or events occurring at the same time, and each column traces the melodic line of the individual parts. Think of kern as music notation written vertically. It can accomodate verbal input.

.xml and .musicxml are not always identical in formatting.