The curving flourishes of music notation have always been something a mystery to me, although every day I, like many people, use other arcane symbols without thinking twice about it.

To keep his channel consistently uploading, he works with transcribers from the United States, Germany, Hungary, Austria and beyond, and sometimes brings in an online music transcription service.

While not officially part of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the Music Notation community group formed earlier this year appears to have every chance of finally standardising Western music ...

The group wants to combine MusicXML and Standard Music Font Layout into a new standard. Some may question why we even need a music notation standard for the web, but to me the real question is ...