MusicXML.jl

MusicXML in Julia
Author JuliaMusic
Sub Category XML
Category File IO
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October 2019

MusicXML

Dev

Build Status (Github Actions) Project Status: Active – The project has reached a stable, usable state and is being actively developed.

Powerful MusicXML reading and writing package for Julia.

Installation and Usage

using Pkg
Pkg.add("MusicXML")
using MusicXML

Documentation

Please see Dev. This readme is just a taste of the actual documentation.

Creating Example

using MusicXML
@importMX # imports all the MusicXML types since we know there is no conflict

## Part List
### Piano
midiinstrument_piano = MidiInstrument(channel= 1, program =1, volume = 100, pan =0, id = "P1-I1")
scorepart_piano = ScorePart(name = "Piano", midiinstrument = midiinstrument_piano, id = "P1")

### Acoustic Guitar
midiinstrument_guitar = MidiInstrument(channel= 1, program =26, volume = 100, pan =0, id = "P2-I1")
scorepart_guitar = ScorePart(name = "Acoustic Guitar", midiinstrument = midiinstrument_guitar, id = "P2")

###
partlist = PartList(scoreparts = [scorepart_piano, scorepart_guitar])

## Part
### Piano

attributes1_piano = Attributes(
   time = Time(beats = 4, beattype = 4), # 4/4
   divisions = 4, # we want to use 16th notes at minimum
   clef = [Clef(number = 1, sign = "G", line = 2), Clef(number = 2, sign = "F", line = 4)], # Piano clefs
   staves = 2, # Piano staves
   key = Key(fifths = 0, mode = "major"), # no accidentals, major key
)

measure1_notes_piano = [
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "C", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  4),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "D", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  4),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "E", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  4),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "F", alter = +1, octave = 4), duration =  4),
]

measure2_notes_piano = [
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 5), duration =  1),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = +1, octave = 5), duration =  1),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "B", alter = 0, octave = 5), duration =  1),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "A", alter = +1, octave = 5), duration =  1),
Note(rest = Rest(), duration =  4), # Rest
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "A", alter = 0, octave = 5), duration =  4),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "B", alter = 0, octave = 5), duration =  4),
]

measures_piano = [
Measure(attributes = attributes1_piano, notes = measure1_notes_piano) # measure 1 has attributes
Measure(notes = measure2_notes_piano)
]


part_piano = Part(measures = measures_piano, id = "P1")


### Guitar

attributes1_guitar = Attributes(
   time = Time(beats = 4, beattype = 4), # 4/4
   divisions = 4, # we want to use 16th notes at minimum
   clef = [Clef(number = 1, sign = "G", line = 2), Clef(number = 2, sign = "TAB", line = 6)], # Guitar Clefs
   staves = 2, # Guitar staves
   key = Key(fifths = 0, mode = "major"), # no accidentals, major key
)

measure1_notes_guitar = [
# G Major chord for a bar
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 2), duration =  16),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "B", alter = 0, octave = 2), duration =  16, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "D", alter = 0, octave = 3), duration =  16, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 3), duration =  16, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "D", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  16, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  16, chord = Chord()),
]

measure2_notes_guitar = [
# G Major chord for half a bar
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 2), duration =  8),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "B", alter = 0, octave = 2), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "D", alter = 0, octave = 3), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 3), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "D", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),

# G Major chord for half a bar
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 2), duration =  8),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "B", alter = 0, octave = 2), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "D", alter = 0, octave = 3), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 3), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "D", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
Note(pitch = Pitch(step = "G", alter = 0, octave = 4), duration =  8, chord = Chord()),
]

measures_guitar = [
Measure(attributes = attributes1_guitar, notes = measure1_notes_guitar) # measure 1 has attributes
Measure(notes = measure2_notes_guitar)
]


part_guitar = Part(measures = measures_guitar, id = "P2")

##
score = ScorePartwise(
partlist = partlist,
parts =  [part_piano, part_guitar],
)

writemusicxml("myscore.musicxml", score)

Parsing Example

using MusicXML

# Reads musicxml file and then extracts the data, builds all the types and stores them in proper format.
scorepartwise = readmusicxml( "musescore.musicxml")

# Example 1:
# Prints Each instrument name and then the pitches

# Extracting each instrument information
scprts = scorepartwise.partlist.scoreparts

# Extracting parts
prts = scorepartwise.parts

# Extracting each part
for prt in prts

    ind = findfirst(x -> prt.id == x.id, scprts) # returns the index of scorepart that matches the id of part

    # printing the instrument name
    println(scprts[ind].name)

    # Extracting each measure of the part
    iMsr=1
    for msr in prt.measures
        # Extracting notes of each measure
        for nt in msr.notes
            if !isnothing(nt.pitch)

                println("Measure no. $iMsr")    # print measure number
                println(nt.pitch)     # print pitch of the note
                println(nt.duration)  # print duration of the note
            elseif !isnothing(nt.unpitched)
                println("Measure no. $iMsr")    # print measure number
                println(nt.unpitched) # print unpitched of the note
                println(nt.duration)  # print duration of the note
            end

        end

        iMsr+=1
    end
end

Types and Functions

You can use among these exported types and functions:

I/O functions

readmusicxml, parsemusicxml, writemusicxml, printmusicxml, pprint, fwritemusicxml, readmusicxml_partial, parsemusicxml_partial

Typess:

Since MusicXML's types are not exported from the package to avoid conflicts with the similarly named types from other libraries (such as Dates.Time, MIDI.Note). There are 3 different solutions:

  1. import the types yourself if you are sure that there is no conflict. Use @importMX to import all the types.
  2. or use MX. before the type names (which MX is an alias for MusicXML)
  3. or use @MX macro, which adds MX. automatically to the type names. See @MX docstring for examples.
ScorePartwise
	partlist (PartList)
		scoreparts (Vector{ScorePart})
			name
			id
			scoreinstrument (ScoreInstrument)
				name
				id
			mididevice (MidiDevice)
				port
				id
			midiinstrument (MidiInstrument)
				channel
				program
				volume
				pan
				id
	part (Part)
		id
		measures (Vector{Measure})
			attributes (Attributes)
				divisions
				key (Key)
					fifth
					mode
				time (Time)
					beats
					beattype
				staves
				instruments
				clefs (Vector{Clef})
					sign
					line
				transpose (Transpose)
					diatonic
					chromatic
					octaveChange
					double
			notes (Vector{Note})
				grace (Grace)
				pitch (Pitch)
					step
					alter
					octave
				rest (Rest)
				unpitched (Unpitched)
				duration
				type
				accidental
				chord (Chord)

For fieldnames, if it is a Vector it has s at the end of the word.

For types, names are capitalized for each word (Camel convention):

ScorePartwise, Part, Measure, Note, Chord, Unpitched, Rest, Pitch, Grace, Attributes, Time, Transpose, Clef, Key, PartList, ScorePart, MidiInstrument, MidiDevice, ScoreInstrument

Utilities

pitch2xml, xml2pitch

Required Packages

Used By Packages

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