Music publishing

Abstract

Current music publishing in the Internet is mainly concerned with sound publishing. We claim that music publishing is not only to make sound available but also to define relations between a set of music objects like music scores, guitar chords, lyrics and their meta-data. We want an easy way to publish music in the Internet, to make high quality paper booklets and even to create Audio CD's. In this document we present a workbench for music publishing based on open formats, using open-source tools and script programming over them. The workbench is based on an archive specification written in a text-based format which includes sound references, music scores, chords and lyrics and their meta-information.