• 1. Writing Music: Why Artificial Intelligence Prefers LilyPond to Graphical Software
• 2. Graphics Software and the MusicXML Language
• 3. Is it possible to write sheet music directly in MusicXML?
• 4. Loss of Information During Conversion to MusicXML
• 5. Using Artificial Intelligence Systems Such as OCR
• 6. OCR Test for LilyPond and MusicXML
• 7. Another Attempt
• 8. In conclusion

1. Writing Music: Why Artificial Intelligence Prefers LilyPond to Graphical Software

In the world of digital music notation, there are two radically different approaches: on one hand, graphical (WYSIWYG) software such as MuseScore, Finale, and Sibelius; on the other, LilyPond, which is based entirely on plain text.

About LilyPond and MuseScore.

LilyPond and MuseScore are the two most interesting open source projects dedicated to music notation.

LilyPond is a markup language, compatible with LaTeX (I refer you to this my article on LaTeX and LilyPond for writing text and music), that allows you to write musical scores of high graphical quality using text characters.

This feature makes it, among other things, also usable by AI systems, such as ChatGPT, to write autogenerated scores.