Building a Comprehensive Sheet MusicLibrary Application

• Klaus Rettinghaus ^[1] ; Alexander Pacha ^[1]
  1. [1] Enote GmbH, Berlin, Germany
• Localización: Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021, 19–22 July, 2021 University of Alicante (Spain): Onsite & Online / Stefan Münnich (dir. congr.), David Rizo Valero (dir. congr.), 2022, ISBN 978-84-1302-173-7, págs. 41-48
• Idioma: español
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  • Digital symbolic music scores offer many benefits compared to paper-based scores, such as a flexible dynamiclayout that allows adjustments of size and style, intelligent navigation features, automatic page-turning, onthe-fly modifications of the score including transposition into a different key, and rule-based annotations thatcan save hours of manual work by automatically highlighting relevant aspects in the score. However, most musicians still rely on paper because they don’t have access to a digital version of their sheet music, or their digitalsolution does not provide a satisfying experience. To bring digital scores to millions of musicians, we at Enoteare building a mobile application that offers a comprehensive digital library of sheet music. These scores areobtained by a large-scale Optical Music Recognition process, combined with metadata collection and curation.Our material is stored in the MEI format and we rely on Verovio as a central component of our app to present scores and parts dynamically on mobile devices. This combination of the expressiveness of MEI with thebeautiful engraving of Verovio allows us to create a flexible, mobile solution that we believe to be a powerfuland true alternative to paper scores with practical features like smart annotations or instant transpositions.We also invest heavily into the open-source development of Verovio to make it the gold standard for renderingbeautiful digital sheet music