The GUIDO Music Notation Format - Overview
Representational adequacy:
"Simple things have simple representations."
Main Features
- General purpose language for score-level music representation
- Platform independent, plain-text, human-readable
- Supports most of common music notation (CMN)
- Flexible and easily extendable beyond CMN
- Represents musical information in an adequate way
- Facilitates representation of incomplete musical information
Application Areas
- Notation software
- Compositional and analytical systems and tools
- Large musical databases
- Performance systems
- Music on the WWW
