Since musical databases in various forms have been a lively topic of discussion, I thought some list members might be interested in an upcoming conference. The Ninth International Conference on Music Information Retrieval will be held in Philadelphia on September 14 to 18. More information is available on the conference web site at:
http://ismir2008.ismir.net/ Most of the talks tend to deal with retrieval from audio files, but there are also several sessions involving symbolic / notation formats like MIDI, MusicXML, and Finale. One presentation will be dealing with using XQuery to retrieve information from MusicXML files created with Finale, Sibelius, or other programs. I will be presenting a demonstration on "Using MusicXML 2.0 to Create Symbolic Music Data Sets" on Thursday the 18th. This will show the latest versions of our Dolet 4 for Finale and Dolet 4 for Sibelius plug-ins, together with PDFtoMusic Pro. People who are deeply interested in both music and databases should find this a fascinating conference! -- Michael Good Recordare LLC www.recordare.com _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list Finale@shsu.edu http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
