<div dir="ltr">Hi Axel, <div><br></div><div><div>Your project sounds fun, and I am also interested in variant handling, do you have a blog or news feed where I could follow updates?<br></div></div><div><br></div><div><div>
I am also a rookie in MEI, so please someone more experienced correct me if I am talking nonsense,</div></div><div>but my guess would be to use the <a href="http://music-encoding.org/documentation/guidelines2013/rdg"><rdg> element</a> (<i>(reading) – Contains a single reading within a textual variation.</i>) that may contain a complete <measure>, or even <section>, therefore may be suitable for the purpose. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Zoltan</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>----</div><div>Zoltan Komives</div><div>GSoC Intern<br></div><div>Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities </div><div><a href="http://mith.umd.edu/people/person/zoltan-komives/">http://mith.umd.edu/people/person/zoltan-komives/</a><br>
</div><div><a href="http://mith.umd.edu/mei-to-vexflow/">http://mith.umd.edu/mei-to-vexflow/</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2013/6/13 Axel Teich Geertinger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:atge@kb.dk" target="_blank">atge@kb.dk</a>></span><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">We are preparing a little experimental digital edition of a piece named “Kaleidakustikon” (c.1820) by Friedrich Kuhlau. It is an aleatoric piece of music of the
same kind as, for instance, Kirnberger’s “Der allezeit fertige Menuetten- und Polonaisencomponist” and the “Musikalisches Würfelspiel” attributed to Mozart.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">It consists of 21 piles of cards, each card containing one bar of music. The player selects one of the 11 cards in each pile by throwing dice. Put together, these
cards form a little waltz. The project is of course to make it an online game, at the same time giving us some experience with MEI workflows.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">The question is: How should we encode the multiple alternatives for each bar? The guidelines explain that the <choice> element “groups a number of alternative encodings
for the same point in a text”. Sounds perfect for this purpose. However, it only allows editorial markup elements like <abbr>, <sic>, <corr>, <reg>, <orig>, <unclear>, <subst>, and <expan> as child elements (BTW, the guidelines p. 163 also mention <add> and
<del>, but not <abbr>, <expan>, and <subst> – a mistake?). <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"">How do we encode choices among a number of alternatives provided by the composer as part of the compositional concept?
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