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Hi.  There are a couple of other standards efforts which may be
interesting to readers of this group.  There are two ANSI committees,
both involving Charles Goldfarb (IBM ARC) and Steve Newcombe (Fla. S.
U.), which are attempting to create standards based on SGML.  The
elder is a group which is defining a music representation language.
The idea here to to come up with a representation which is strong
enough and general enough that all the interesting attributes of the
performance are captured, and that the interpretation of the
representation can vary (widely) based on the consumer.  That is, if
the consumer is a notation program, it will eat the representation and
produce notation.  A performance processor will eat the representation
and make sounds, perhaps by compiling the representation into a MIDI
stream, and sending that stream out a hardware port.  Other
producers/consumers might be music analysis and algorithmic
composition programs, and instructional (CBT) music programs.  The
representation is inherently temporal (as is music) and oriented
toward multimedia, so that it can represent opera, for instance.

The second committee is an outgrowth of the first.  It is chartered
with the responsibility to standardize on a transportable
representation for hypertext.

Needless to say, both are politically "hot" areas, with significant
discussion about whether even the basic approach is correct, and
whether there is enough experience in these areas to even evaluate a
standard.  Nevertheless, both are ongoing, ANSI-blessed committees,
and will ultimately produce standards.  Both committees are actively
soliciting input, and working members.

For futher information on either committee and/or standard, contact

Steve Newcomb
Associate Director
Center for Music Research
Florida State U., School of Music
Tallahassee, Fla., 32306-2098

srn%cmr@edu.ufl.cis.bikini

School phone:  (904)644-3424

		Paul
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