Category Archives: Software

Dolet 4.7 for Finale Now Available

Posted on March 24, 2009 by Michael

Recordare has released version 4.7 of our Dolet for Finale plug-in. The big new feature in this release is support for reading and writing Open Score Format (OSF) files. Open Score Format is a new format for distribution, interchange, and … Continue reading →

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Altova Case Study

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Michael

Recordare has been using Altova products such as XMLSpy and DiffDog for many years to help develop both the MusicXML format and our Dolet plug-ins. Now Altova has written up our experience as a case study and posted it on … Continue reading →

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Dolet 4.6 for Finale Now Available

Posted on January 10, 2009 by Michael

I hope that everyone had a happy holiday season and new year! To start off the new year, Recordare has released version 4.6 of our Dolet for Finale plug-in. Dolet is a plug-in for the Finale music notation program that … Continue reading →

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Prof. Michael Hammer

Posted on November 27, 2008 by Michael

Michael Hammer was far and away my most influential computer science professor at MIT. And I had a lot of great professors there, both inside and outside of computer science. His far-too-early death last September shocked me. Most of the … Continue reading →

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ISMIR 2008 Wrapup

Posted on September 23, 2008 by Michael

Last week’s ISMIR 2008 conference on music information retrieval was another grand success. It was great to meet several people who I had only corresponded with before on the MusicXML developer mailing list, including Geoff Chirgwin, Joachim Ganseman, and Phil … Continue reading →

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Coming Up: ISMIR 2008

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Michael

Next week is the annual International Conference on Music Information Retrieval, known as ISMIR for short. It started out 8 years ago as a symposium in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Since then it has grown into a full-fledged conference, but the ISMIR … Continue reading →

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MusicXML – The Next Generation

Posted on September 13, 2008 by Michael

Recordare completed our September product launches yesterday. In the past two weeks we have released: Dolet 4 for Sibelius, our plug-in for saving MusicXML files from Sibelius. This version works with Sibelius 5, saves MusicXML 2.0 files, and has a … Continue reading →

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Cabrillo Festival 2008 – Triple Play

Posted on August 4, 2008 by Michael

Saturday’s Cabrillo concert was another winner. It opened with a beautiful piece by Dorothy Chang, moved on to an intriguing work by Mason Bates, and concluded with a spectacular percussion concerto by John Corigliano with Evelyn Glennie as soloist. I … Continue reading →

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