MutopiaProject

ABC is the other major player in the space besides MusicXML and Lilypond. The Mutopia project [1] is magnificent but largely abandoned in favor of MuseScore [2] which uses MusicXML. The amount of music available there is staggering but locked in to their backend. Unfortunately automated translation is difficult because Lilypond is very oriented towards specifics on how the notation is rendered. And, if you are interested in general archives of music, IMSLP [3] (Internet Music Score Library Project) has to be mentioned as well, but mostly contains scans of existing engraved music. [1] https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject [2] https://musescore.com/sheetmusic [3] https://imslp.org

> working on producing The Mutopia project is dormant (per admissions and observations from contributors in the project's mailing list), and under current maintainership (or lack thereof) having contributions processed is hit-or-miss[0]. > latex versions of music Lilypond is not based on (La)TeX, but lilypond-book, a companion utility that processes lilypond files, allows scores (or fragments) to be integrated into LaTeX, DocBook, Texinfo, and HTML documents[1]. (There is a LaTeX package for music typesetting called MusiXTeX[2], which was used by many scores of the former Werner Icking Music Archive, which merged[3] long ago into IMSLP). 0: Primary contribution channel: https://github.com/MutopiaProject/MutopiaProject 1: Usage of lilypond-book: https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/usage/integrati... 2: MusiXTeX package home page:

Fantastic stuff. I find the choice of MuseScore and it's somewhat proprietary XML-based format an odd choice for "open" though. For example, I tried to open these scores using the MuseScore binary that comes with the latest ubuntu, and it was unable to open the files due to the fact that they're written using the pre-release 2.0 version of MuseScore. Personally, I find LilyPond (http://lilypond.org/) a much better choice for these sorts of "open score" type projects. It's editable without a GUI, and produces best-of-class output. Think of MuseScore as "a drawing program for musical scores" and LilyPond as "a language for expressing scores in a human-readable, generic form" The Mutopia Project (http://www.mutopiaproject.org/) has been hosting and re-engraving public domain scores for a very long time. All the source code including scor