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Using XQuery on MusicXML Databases for Musicological Analysis

MusicXML is a fairly recent XML-based file format for music scores, now supported by many score and audio editing software applications. Several online score library projects exist or are emerging, some of them using MusicXML as main format. When storing a large set of XML-encoded scores in an XML database, XQuery can be used to retrieve information from this database. We present some small practical examples of such large scale analysis, using the Wikifonia lead sheet database and the eXist XQuery engine. This shows the feasibility of automated musicological analysis on digital score libraries using the latest software tools. Bottom line: it’s easy.

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