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Chapter 2. Music description
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Chapter 2. Music description

Table of Contents

2.1. The Score, Language and Version elements
2.2. The Instrument element
2.3. The MusicData element
2.3.1. The Clef element
2.3.2. The Key element
2.3.3. The Time Signature element
2.3.4. The Barline element
2.4. Notes and rests
2.4.1. Pitch
2.4.2. Duration
2.4.3. Abbreviated notation for notes and rests
2.5. Chords
2.6. Ties
2.7. Beamed groups
2.8. Tuplets
2.9. Selecting the staff
2.10. Polyphony

2.1. The Score, Language and Version elements

A Score is, basically, a collection of Instruments and some optional information such as the title or the author.

[1]Score::= (score Language Version [Title]* Instrument+ )  

In case you would like to use a different set of tags than the English set or to use non Western characters (ISO-8859-1) the Language element allows to specify these characteristics.

[2]Language::= (language LanguageCode Charset )
 
[3]Charset::= Any ISO charset code name, i.e. "ISO-8859-1"  
[4]LanguageCode::= A language code from ISO 639 (perhaps extended with a country code from ISO 3166, as en-US)  

Examples:

(language es iso-8859-1)      use the Spanish set of tags
(language en iso-8859-1)      use the English set of tags

The Version element is just a number to indicate the LDP language version used to encode the score:

[5]Version::= (vers VersNumber )  
[6]VersNumber::= An string identifying the version, i.e. 1.5  

For example:

(vers 1.5)      the score is encoded using LDP version 1.5
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1.5. Notation used Table of contents 2.2. The Instrument element