Rosetta Stone of Musical Data Codes
The following graphical notation and digital formats represent the same melody.
Graphical Music Notation
SCORE music typesetting program output
Finale music typesetting program output
Sibelius music typesetting program output
MUP music typesetting program output
Lilypond music typesetting program output
Koto (Japanese harp) music notation
Piano Roll
Digital Encodings (text based)
ABC
X:1 T:Example M:2/4 K:F L:1/16 c3 d/2 c/2 c2 c2 | c f f4 z f | f a a4 z c' | c'3 a c'bag |
DARMS
!G !K1- !M2:4
6E.( 7T(( 6))) 6E( 6) /
6S(( 9)) 9Q RS 9S /
9S( 11) 11Q RS 13S /
13E.( 11S) 13S(( 12 11 10)) /
Guido Music Notation
[ \clef<"g2"> \key<-1> \meter<"2/4">
c2/8. d/32 c c/8 c
\bar<2> c/16 f f/4 _/16 f
\bar<3> f a a/4 _/16 c3
\bar<4> c/8. a2/16 c3 b&2 a g
]
MuseData
12/21/04 Part_1 Group memberships: score score: part 1 of 1 $ Q:8 K:-1 T:2/4 C:4 S C5 6 1 e. d [ D5 1 1 t d =[[ C5 1 1 t d ]]] C5 4 1 e d [ C5 4 1 e d ] measure 2 C5 2 1 s d [[ F5 2 1 s d ]] F5 8 1 q d rest 2 1 s F5 2 1 s d measure 3 F5 2 1 s d [[ A5 2 1 s d ]] A5 8 1 q d rest 2 1 s C6 2 1 s d measure 4 C6 6 1 e. d [ A5 2 1 s d ]\ C6 2 1 s d [[ Bf5 2 1 s d == A5 2 1 s d == G5 2 1 s d ]] /END
Hudrum **kern
**kern *staff1 =1- *clefG2 *k[b-] *M2/4 8.cc\L 32dd\LL 32cc\JJJ 8cc\L 8cc\J =2 16cc\LL 16ff\JJ 4ff\ 16r 16ff\ =3 16ff\LL 16aa\JJ 4aa\ 16r 16ccc\ =4 8.ccc\L 16aa\Jk 16ccc\LL 16bb-\ 16aa\ 16gg\JJ *-
Humdrum **koto
**koto 5.| 5||h 5| 5| = 5|| 7|| 7 0|| 7|| = 7|| 9||# 9# 0|| A|| = A|. 9||# A|| 9||## 9||# 8|| = *-
Melisma
Info keysig 1 sharp Note 0 750 72 Note 750 875 74 Note 875 1000 72 Note 1000 1500 72 Note 1500 2000 72 Note 2000 2250 72 Note 2250 2500 77 Note 2500 3500 77 Note 3750 4000 77 Note 4000 4250 77 Note 4250 4500 81 Note 4500 5500 81 Note 5750 6000 84 Note 6000 6750 84 Note 6750 7000 81 Note 7000 7250 84 Note 7250 7500 82 Note 7500 7750 81 Note 7750 8000 79
SKINI
// Measure number 1 =0 // Keysig 1 flat NoteOn 0 1 72 64 NoteOff 0.75 1 72 64 NoteOn 0 1 74 64 NoteOff 0.125 1 74 64 NoteOn 0 1 72 64 NoteOff 0.125 1 72 64 NoteOn 0 1 72 64 NoteOff 0.5 1 72 64 NoteOn 0 1 72 64 NoteOff 0.5 1 72 64 // Measure number 2 =2 NoteOn 0 1 72 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 72 64 NoteOn 0 1 77 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 77 64 NoteOn 0 1 77 64 NoteOff 1 1 77 64 NoteOn 0.25 1 77 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 77 64 // Measure number 3 =4 NoteOn 0 1 77 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 77 64 NoteOn 0 1 81 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 81 64 NoteOn 0 1 81 64 NoteOff 1 1 81 64 NoteOn 0.25 1 84 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 84 64 // Measure number 4 =6 NoteOn 0 1 84 64 NoteOff 0.75 1 84 64 NoteOn 0 1 81 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 81 64 NoteOn 0 1 84 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 84 64 NoteOn 0 1 82 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 82 64 NoteOn 0 1 81 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 81 64 NoteOn 0 1 79 64 NoteOff 0.25 1 79 64
Director Musices
mono-track
:trackname "track 1"
(bar 1 n ("C5" 3/16) meter (2 4))
(n ("D5" 1/32))
(n ("C5" 1/32))
(n ("C5" 1/8))
(n ("C5" 1/8))
(bar 2 n ("C5" 1/16))
(n ("F5" 1/16))
(n ("F5" 1/4))
(n (nil 1/16) rest t)
(n ("F5" 1/16))
(bar 3 n ("F5" 1/16))
(n ("A5" 1/16))
(n ("A5" 1/4))
(n (nil 1/16) rest t)
(n ("C6" 1/16))
(bar 4 n ("C6" 3/16))
(n ("A5" 1/16))
(n ("C6" 1/16))
(n ("Bb5" 1/16))
(n ("A5" 1/16))
(n ("G5" 1/16))
ENP
(:begin :score
(:begin :part1
:staff :treble-staff
:key-signature :f-major
:time-signature (2 4)
(:begin :voice1
(:begin :measure1
(1 (
(6 ((1 :notes (72) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (74) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (72) :stem-direction :down)))
))
(1 (
(1 ((1 :notes (72) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (72) :stem-direction :down)))
))
)
(:begin :measure2
(2 (
(1 ((1 :notes (72) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (77) :stem-direction :down)))
(4 ((1 :notes (77) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 (-1))
(1 ((1 :notes (77) :stem-direction :down)))
))
)
(:begin :measure3
(2 (
(1 ((1 :notes (77) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (81) :stem-direction :down)))
(4 ((1 :notes (81) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 (-1))
(1 ((1 :notes (84) :stem-direction :down)))
))
)
(:begin :measure4
(1 (
(3 ((1 :notes (84) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (81) :stem-direction :down)))
))
(1 (
(1 ((1 :notes (84) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (82) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (81) :stem-direction :down)))
(1 ((1 :notes (79) :stem-direction :down)))
))
)
) ; end :voice1
) ; end :part1
) ; end :score
Lilypond
\version "2.3.25"
\header {
crossRefNumber = "1"
footnotes = ""
tagline = "Lily was here 2.4.1 -- automatically converted from ABC"
title = "Example"
}
voicedefault = {
\set Score.defaultBarType = "empty"
\time 2/4 c8. d32 c32 c8 c8 \bar "|" c16
f16 f4 r16 f16 \bar "|" f16 a16 a4 r16
c16 \bar "|" c8. a16 c16 b16 a16 g16
\bar "|"
}
\score{
<<
\context Staff="default" { \voicedefault }
>>
}
MUP
header
size=12
title bold (18) ""
title bold (14) "" ""
score
lyricssize=12
staffs=1
time=2/4
beamstyle=4,4
staff 1
clef = treble
key=1&
label=""
music
1 1: 8.c5 bm; 32d5; 32c5 ebm; 8c5 bm; 8c5 ebm;
bar
1 1: 16c5 bm; 16f5 ebm; 4f5; 16r; 16f5;
bar
1 1: 16f5 bm; 16a5 ebm; 4a5; 16r; 16c6;
bar
1 1: 8.c6 bm; 16a5 ebm; 16c6 bm; 16b5; 16a5; 16g5 ebm;
bar
SharpEye MRO
SharpEyeMusicOCROutputFile
fileheader
{
version 3100 characterencoding ISO88591 }
score
{
title$ "dummy title with ""quote"" for test"
unitsperstavespacing 16 miditempo 60 midivelocity 64 midilyrics False midirepeats False preedit False
pages
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page
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{
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}
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}
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}
chord
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chord
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chord
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}
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}
bar
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chord
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chord
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{
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}
}
chord
{
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tuplettransform 1/1 tupletID -1 nofmmrestbars 0
accent False staccato False marcato False staccatissimo False tenuto False pause False upbow False downbow False trill False mordent False invmordent False
naugdots 0 nflags 0 flagposn 41,558 headend 0 beam
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notes
{
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note
{
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}
}
chord
{
virtualstem False stemup False stemslash False
tuplettransform 1/1 tupletID -1 nofmmrestbars 0
accent False staccato False marcato False staccatissimo False tenuto False pause False upbow False downbow False trill False mordent False invmordent False
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}
barline
{
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}
bar
{
chords
{
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chord
{
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tuplettransform 1/1 tupletID -1 nofmmrestbars 0
accent False staccato False marcato False staccatissimo False tenuto False pause False upbow False downbow False trill False mordent False invmordent False
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notes
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note
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}
}
chord
{
virtualstem False stemup False stemslash False
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notes
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}
chord
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virtualstem False stemup False stemslash False
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barline
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}
bar
{
chords
{
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chord
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chord
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}