Common Music Notation Explained
Common Music Notation (CMN) is open-source musical notation software. It is written in Common Lisp and runs on a variety of operating systems and Common Lisp implementations.
CMN provides a package of functions to hierarchically describe a musical score. When evaluated, the musical score is rendered to an image. An example score expression[1] and the image resulting from its evaluation is shown. (cmn (size 24) (system brace (staff treble (meter 6 8) (c4 e. tenuto) (d4 s) (ef4 e sf) (c4 e) (d4 s) (en4 s) (fs4 e (fingering 3))) (staff treble (meter 3 4) (c5 e. marcato) (d5 s bartok-pizzicato) (ef5 e) (c5 e staccato tenuto) (d5 s down-bow) (en5 s) (fs5 e))) (system bracket (staff bar bass (meter 6 16) (c4 e. wedge) (d4 s staccato) (ef4 e left-hand-pizzicato) (c4 e tenuto accent rfz) (d4 s mordent) (en4 s pp) (fs4 e fermata))))The output file format of CMN is Encapsulated PostScript.
References
- http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cmn/cmn/cmn.html CMN Manual
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