The main reference volume dealing with schemes for representation of music which
go "Beyond MIDI". Each chapter describes the intended uses of a particular
representation scheme, the file format, data which exists in that format and gives
an encoded example.
Representation schemes covered include:- DARMS, Common Music Notation, M*TeX, SCORE,
Music Scribe, LIME's Tilia, Nightingale's Notelist, Csound, Braille Music Notation,
EsAC, RISM, Kern, MuseData, HyTime, Standard Music Description Language (SMDL),
Notation Interchange File Format (NIFF) and Standard Musical Expression (SMX).
Also included are discussions of "Issues of Musical Representation", "Guidelines
for New Codes", a Glossary and an Index.
