Balisage Paper: The Road Not Taken
MusicXML, Other Notation Standards, and a Case Study
August 3 - 7, 2026
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Slides and Materials
- Bal2026-Lubell-presentation-pdf.zip: Presentation slides in Adobe PDF
- Bal2026-Lubell-BassPracticeTrack-mp3.zip: Portion of a Bass practice track, generated by Musescore Studio, in MP3
- Bal2026-Lubell-SATB-mp3.zip: Portion of a Soprano-Alto-Tenor-Bass score with piano accompaniment, generated by Musescore Studio, in MP3
Cashner, Andrew A. Lilypond Music-Notation Software in the Digital-Humanities Toolbox.
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly 18.2 (2024). doi:https://doi.org/10.63744/rfcvh3zcuxby.
Good, M. and Recordare, L.L.C. Lessons from the Adoption of MusicXML as an Interchange Standard.
In Proceedings of XML 2006. https://www.musicxml.com/publications/makemusic-recordare/xml-2006
Maxwell, John Turner, and Severo M. Ornstein. Mockingbird: A composer's amanuensis. No. CSL-83-2. XEROX Corporation, Palo Alto Research Centers, 1983.
Music Encoding Initiative. MEI: The Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines (PDF). 5.1, Zenodo, 23 Jan. 2025. doi:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14795519.
W3C Music Notation Community Group. MusicXML 4.0: Final Community Group Report. World Wide Web Consortium, 1 June 2021. http://www.w3.org/2021/06/musicxml40/.
Sherzod Muzaffarovich Mustafoev. The Interconnection between Sounds, Musical Memory, and the Sense of Melody and Harmony.
European Review of Contemporary Arts and Humanities 1(4):3-8 (Nov. 2025).
Newcomb, S.R., Kipp, N.A. and Newcomb, V.T. The ‘HyTime’ hypermedia/time-based document structuring language.
Communications of the ACM, 34(11):67-83 (1991). doi:https://doi.org/10.1145/125490.125495.
Simons, Michael Roy, and Elisa E. Beshero-Bondar. Is Invisible XML Ready for College Students? Trying iXML and XProc on a Music Analysis
Project in an Undergraduate Text Analysis Course.
Presented at Balisage: The Markup Conference 2025, Washington, DC, August 4 - 8,
2025. In Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2025. Balisage Series on Markup Technologies, vol. 30 (2025). doi:https://doi.org/10.4242/BalisageVol30.Beshero-Bondar01.
Thompson, Randall. Frostiana: Seven Country Songs. E.C. Schirmer Music, 1965.