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The GUIDO Music Notation</h2>
<p>The GUIDO Music Notation format (GMN) is a general purpose formal language for representing score level music in a platform independent plain text and human readable way. It is based on a conceptually simple but powerful formalism: its design concentrates on general musical concepts (as opposed to graphical features). A key feature of the GUIDO design is adequacy which means that simple musical concepts should be represented in a simple way a