[lelandfe]

One of my family members is a music theory professor, here's what they had to say about this:

> [Lilypond] was one of a handful of early programs turning notation into ASCII text. Older program but still useful. MusicXML has made a lot of these older systems less productive these days, though: https://www.musicxml.com/

> Developed by Michael Goode at Stanford – it's now the international standard for music encoding.