README.md
1Welcome to the libmusicxml project
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4[Grame](http://www.grame.fr) - Centre National de Création Musicale
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7The MusicXML library is a portable C++ library designed close to the MusicXML format and intended to facilitate MusicXML support.
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9[MusicXML](http://www.musicxml.com/) is a music interchange format designed for notation, analysis, retrieval, and performance applications. The MusicXML format has been initialy developped by Recordare. It is open for use by anyone under a royalty-free license.
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12The libmusicxml library runs on the main operating systems: Linux, MacOS, iOS, Windows, Android. It can also be compiled to JavaScript using [emscripten](http://emscripten.org) to be embedded in a web page.
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14This package includes the musicxml library and 3 converters:
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16- xml2guido (Dominique Fober & Arsia Cont) : converts the MusicXML format to [Guido](http://guidodoc.grame.fr/);
17- xml2ly (Jacques Menu) : converts the MusicXML format to [Lilypond](http://lilypond.org/), close to version 1.0;
18- xml2brl (Jacques. Menu) : converts the MusicXML format to [braille music], experimental.
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