Invoking musicxml2ly - GNU LilyPond
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### 14.3 Invoking `musicxml2ly`

MusicXML is an XML dialect for representing music notation.

`musicxml2ly` extracts the notes from part-wise MusicXML files, and writes it to a .ly file. It is invoked from the command-line.

Note that by “command-line”, we mean the command line of the operating system. See Converting from other formats for more information about this.

The following options are supported by `musicxml2ly`:

`-h,--help`
  print usage and option summary.
`-o,--output=`file
  set output filename to file. (default: print to stdout)
`-v,--version`
  print version information.

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