Subito

subito /'su.bi.to/ - (int.) Adverb: 1. (music) suddenly

Subito is a JavaScript library for music engraving. It strives to render beautiful music scores, while maintaining a good level of performance. Subito is the main project of the Subito Project which aims at providing a full musical understanding to the web. It includes teoria.js, a robust music theory framework, MusicJSON which is a port of the MusicXML language to the more simple and lightweight JSON. Futhermore a fontviewer side-project is available for listing all available glyphs in a SVG font file.

I'm far from having an even somewhat functional framework, but the code is constantly improving, and hopefully it might end up quite functional.

Installation

You'll need the mingler and jake (and optionally colors and uglify-js) NPM packages, this shold be easy to install with npm install at the project root.

Clone the repository, fetch submodules and install dependencies:

$ git clone git://github.com/saebekassebil/subito.git
$ cd subito
$ git submodule init && git submodule update
$ npm install

Build the concatenated (and optionally minified) build file:

jake or jake build[minify] or jake build[font] or jake build[font,minify]

Examples

The main file I use for testing is located at test/index.html and this is where you can see the programmatic usage of the library. A more extravagant example is found in examples/scales.html and a live editor example in examples/parsing.html

Before running the examples you should build the required concatenated files:

$ jake examples

Usage

Right now I haven't made any documentation of the code, besides those notes which are already written in the source code. This is quite possibly a bad idea, but by diving into the code by looking at the examples and test documents you should be well on your way to understand the code.

There's also a standalone mode, which can be built by jake build[standalone]. This (should) render all scores embedded in the document.

Support

Subito is supported in all modern browsers (supporting either SVG or Canvas), that being: Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari and IE9+

Can I help?

You sure can! The rendering code needs a lot of love, but everything you can contribute with will be highly appreciated! Please feel free to submit issues, and submit pull requests, they'll be eagerly received :)