Notes

• Guido is output with latin_1 encoding, because that seems to work with NoteServer [convert.py]
• arguments to Guido beams are ignored [beam_stem.py]
• Only the first verse of lyrics in MusicXML can be stored in Guido [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• There is no way to represent <senza-misura> and type="single-number" for meters in Guido [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• Tempo names are not converted from MusicXML -> Guido, only metronome markings [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• There is a limited vocabulary of written directions that get converted from MusicXML to Guido. This conversion is not very smart or robust. [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• Markings followed by dashes are not supported by MusicXML -> Guido [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• MusicXML doesn't seem to have a way to support Guido \headsReverse [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Guido \noteFormat tag is completely unsupported [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Guido \splitChord tag is completely unsupported [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• In GUIDO, barlines are "global": i.e. they affect all parts. Therefore, we merge all barlines, but warn if there are barlines in subsequent parts that do not match those in the previous parts. [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Guido doesn't have named parts like MusicXML, so we grab it from the \instrument tag [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Measures out-of-order (using arguments to the \bar tag) in Guido are treated as being in file ordering [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• accelerandos/ritardandos are output to MusicXML as text only (i.e. no actual tempo changes) [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Lyric syllables from MusicXML -> MidiXML are pretty weak for obvious reasons [musicxml_to_midixml.py]
• Only type 1 MIDI files are supported at this time [midixml_to_midi.py]
• MidiXML <EndOfTrack> elements are ignored [midixml_to_midi.py]
• MidiXML <MTCQuarterFrame> elements are ignored [midixml_to_midi.py]

Bugs or shortcomings in other systems

• Note-level dynamics do not seem to work in Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• tremolos don't seem to work in Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• tremolos don't seem to work in Finale 2004 / Dolet 1.3.1 [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• secondary beaming doesn't seem to work in Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Elisions don't work correctly in Turandot. [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• ornaments don't seem to work in Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Turandot doesn't seem to handle changing clefs mid-stream [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• System breaks don't work in Turandot. [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• multiple repeat endings do not seem to work in Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• repeats display but do not actually play in Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• tempo tags don't seem to work in Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• Octave shift does not seem to work with Turandot [guido_to_musicxml.py]

To-dos

• deal with time-wise MusicXML scores (e.g. use Michael Good's XSLT transform first) [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• MusicXML -> Guido ornament handling [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• check that we have xmllint and use it [validate.py]
• document GuidoToMusicXML.make_plan because it's really hairy [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• support word-based (as opposed to wedge-based) cresc. and dim. [guido_to_musicxml.py]
• add support for custom namespace resolvers/default namespaces [ElementTree.py]
• add support for incremental parsing [ElementTree.py]
• check that we have xmllint and use it [validate.py]

Longer-term plans

• Finish support for conversion from MusicXML to Guido [musicxml_to_guido.py]
• Possibly switch to another XML toolkit to support transformation and validation directly from Python [validate.py]

Building and installing from source

To build and install this package, use the regular Python distutils method:

python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

If you do not have a compiler available, you can use the --no-compiler build flag. pyScore will still work, but will run much slower:

python setup.py build --no-compiler
sudo python setup.py install

On Mac OS-X, you probably want to install the scripts somewhere reasonable:

sudo python setup.py install --install-scripts=/usr/local/bin

If you don't already have /usr/local/bin/ on your PATH, you may want to add it.

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