Designed for the Music Encoding Initiative - Fast - Light - Flexible - No dependencies
Verovio is a fast, portable and lightweight open-source library for engraving Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) music scores into SVG.
Verovio follows the Standard Music Font Layout specification, which makes it easy to change the music font for personalizing the appearance.
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The first version of Verovio in 2025 is now out as version 5.0. This is also the first version of Verovio supporting MEI 5.1 for both reading and writing.
One important feature in this new version is the support for scoring up mensural notation. This new feature was implemented by Martha E. Thomae with support of the NFDI4Culture with a grant to Anna Plaksin.
After a important 4.4 release that brought many improvements to the support for mensural notation and a new importer for CMME, Verovio 4.5 is now out! This version integrates luth tablature developments to be released in MEI 5.1.
This release of Verovio will be the last of version 4 releases since we are now adopting a new versioning scheme where the major number will be increased once per year, with version 5 in 2025. Switching to a development version of MEI will happen independently, whenever appropriate, which will give us more flexibility in integrating upcoming MEI features.
Verovio is developed by the RISM Digital Center with the support of the Swiss National Science Foundation. The project receives dedicated financial support from the Digital Mozart Edition, a joint project of the Salzburg Mozarteum Foundation and the Packard Humanities Institute, Los Altos/CA. It also received in-kind support from the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig from 2017 to 2019.
The source code is available on GitHub under the LGPLv3 license.
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Many thanks to all the contributors
The SVG output of Verovio is designed as an intermediate reflowable layer that facilitates the development of interactive applications, such as music notation editors or interactive digital editions.
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Verovio is designed to be usable in a wide range of technical environments (C++, JavaScript, Python).
It works on desktop computers but also tablets and mobile devices. Verovio also provides basic support for other music notation format, such as MusicXML import and MIDI output.
Verovio is designed to be used in a wide range of applications and has been adopted by several projects or institutions. It is currently used by:
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Do you use Verovio? Let us know!
Verovio is named after a Dutch music engraver, Simone Verovio, who was active in Rome in the late sixteenth century. He was one of the very first to use engraving on copper plates for printing music, a technique that was revealed to be the most suited to music about one century later.
