[MEI-L] Closed/Plus encoding symbol

Craig Sapp craigsapp at gmail.com
Thu Feb 26 21:33:50 CET 2015


Hi Andrew,

Technically it will depend on the semantics of the symbol, as a '+'
sign will most likely have different meanings for different
repertories/instruments.

For French Horns, the "+" sign is used to indicate a stopped note (or
the start of a sequence of stopped notes that would be cancelled by an
"o" above a note, meaning "open".).

In the MEI articulation list:
     http://music-encoding.org/documentation/guidelines2013/data.ARTICULATION

I see an entry called "stop", so that is the most likely thing to start with.

-=+Craig




On 26 February 2015 at 12:13, Andrew Hankinson
<andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to encode a "+" articulation mark on a note, and don't seem to be able to find anything in @artic that matches up with it. I could be looking in the wrong place, though.
>
> You can see an example of this symbol in action in Gould's "Behind Bars" on pp. 281, 297-8 (closed hi-hat) and 263 (Horn hand-stopping). I've consulted the Unicode Western notation guide (from which @artic seems to take its inspiration) and it also seems to be lacking there.
>
> Any clues?
>
> Thanks,
> -Andrew
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> mei-l mailing list
> mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
> https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-l



More information about the mei-l mailing list