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beam-level data type

The MusicXML format supports six levels of beaming, up to 1024th notes. Unlike the number-level type, the beam-level type identifies concurrent beams in a beam group. It does not distinguish overlapping beams such as grace notes within regular notes, or beams used in different voices.

Base type: positiveInteger

Minimum allowed value: 1

Maximum allowed value: 8

Where is this type used?

<beam> — "number" attribute

<metronome-beam> — "number" attribute