Introduction

About this book

This book is intended to serve as a reference guide for how to work with Verovio, and is meant for users of all skill levels. The book is a collaborative work that brings together inputs from the many contributors to the Verovio projects under the editorial leadership of the RISM Digital Center team.

This initial chapter gives an introduction to Verovio and the history of the project as well as an overview on how to use it.

The following two chapters provides a number of tutorials, starting at the very basic and ending at advanced topics in notation. By the end of these you should have a very good understanding of how to use Verovio in its different forms, and how you can start to integrate it into your own work.

The chapter on advanced-topics provides some more in-depths explanation of specifics of Verovio.

The last chapters provides a reference for the operations and options available. They also cover how to build and install Verovio, including from the source code, and how to contribute to the active development of Verovio.

Reference

This book is identified with the DOI 10.5448/7em6-my23 which refers to the currently applicable version of the book documenting the latest release of Verovio.

License

This book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License, see also in the README.

Getting help

As you work through this book, from the most basic to the most advanced topics, you may find that you are struggling to understand something. The quickest and easiest way to get help is to reach out on the #verovio channel in the MEI Community’s Slack chat. If you are not already a member, you can join.