Transferring Your Score to Other Music Programs Via MusicXML |
MusicXML is a file format designed for exchanging music notation between different music software applications. MusicXML, developed by Recordare (www.recordare.com), is used under a royalty-free license in many popular music software programs, including Finaletm and Sibeliustm.
Some common scenarios under which you might find it useful to transfer a score from Composer to another music notation program, such as Finaletm and Sibeliustm include:
Notation Composer supports the exporting of a score as a MusicXML file. This means that you can transfer a score that you have created in Composer to another music program, such as Finaletm and Sibeliustm, that supports importing (reading) MusicXML files.
For example, here are the first few measures of \Program Files\Notation\Songs\RhapsodyInBlue.not, as displayed on the screen by Composer:
The above score, saved by Composer as a MusicXML file, looks like this when opened by Finaletm 2006:
The transfer of the score is not perfect, but with Finaletm the transfer of the score usually good. The score might not look as good in some other music notation programs. The quality of the transfer of the score is dependent both on (1) how well Composer exports MusicXML and (2) how well the other music notation program imports MusicXML. Composer does a good job exporting MusicXML, and Finaletm 2006 does a good job importing MusicXML, as illustrated above. If another music notation program does not do a good job displaying the imported MusicXML score, then this suggests that the "blame" is on the other music notation program for not correctly or thoroughly importing the MusicXML file. However, if the problem is specific to a certain type of music symbol, then the blame might very well be on Composer. If you find that your other music notation program correctly imports a music symbol exported by some third music notation program, but not if it is exported by <%PROD%>, then please let us know, by contacting us at support@notation.com or by posting a message in our forum, following the link at the bottom of this Help topic.
Note, this version of Composer does not support exchange of MusicXML files in the opposite direction. That is, this version of Composer does not support importing MusicXML. Support for importing MusicXML is planned for a future version of Composer.
To export a score in the format of a MusicXML file:
The instructions for opening the MusicXML file in your other music notation program depends on which program you are using. You can expect to find the option in the File menu of that other program. First, look for an Import command, and if you do, choose MusicXML as the type of file you wish to import. If you do not find an Import command, then try the Open command, and look for an option to specify MusicXML as the type of file you wish to open. |