Hi Radu,
As far as I understand Common Western Notation (CWN) and Byzantine notation are very different. So I'm not sure how much MuseScore would bring to the table for a byzantine notation editor.
Conceptually,
* MuseScore is built around measures, and byzantine music doesn't have this concept.
* Byzantine music uses a completely different set of symbols and MuseScore doesn't support any of them.
* MuseScore is mainly using absolute pitches, even if they are some possibilities of movable do through plugins, they are mainly hacks. Byzantine music uses relative pitches.
And so on and so forth. In fact MuseScore is built for CWN, the further a new system is from CWN, the harder it will be to implement. Tablature notation was close enough and after much effort we now support guitar/bass/ukulele tablatures, even lute tablature. But several individuals wanted to implement the Chinese Jianpu
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbered_musical_notation, which seems closer than Byzantine notation, without success so far.
You also mention playback. Even if CWN is quite rigid, MuseScore doesn't play all the symbols. Byzantine notation seems to be a lot less deterministic ("Byzantine notation is descriptive, it grants an experienced chanter the freedom to add to a melody the embellishments he has learned through oral tradition."), so playback would definitively be even less satisfying than CWN/MuseScore.
So if you really want to follow this road, you can find me on IRC #musescore on
freenode.net and I can try to guide you. But I'm afraid that implementing Byzantine notation in MuseScore might be more complex than implementing it from scratch.
Regards,
lasconic
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