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Existing Score file utilities

Text representations of music are often difficult to work with, and the Kiwi score format is not designed to be human readable. Rather than attempt to provide fancy formats for Kiwi scores, I focused on providing powerful front-end programs which generate Kiwi scores automatically. Here are a few examples:

1. The LIME editor is a standard notation editor for music using the PLATO system in conjunction with special hardware developed at the CERL PLATO Music Group [2]. LIME displays music on a graphics screen in standard notation form and allows the user to enter notes with a piano-style keyboard. A simple utility converts these LIME files into Kiwi scores.
2. The HyperScore ToolKit[9] is a project by Stephen Pope to develop tools in Smalltalk-80 for editing music graphically. The toolkit includes a "piano roll" editor, in which notes are represented as bars whose length is proportional to their duration. A few additional routines allows Smalltalk to write Kiwi scores.
3. The CMU MIDI toolkit implements a music language for MIDI called Adagio. The Transcribe program records a live keyboard performance and translates it into Adagio code. This can be converted to Kiwi notation.