<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Hello, folks,</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">I’m working on the Du Chemin project <<a href="http://tinyurl.com/duchemin"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); ">http://tinyurl.com/duchemin</span></a>> with Richard Freedman at Haverford College. For those who don’t know about the project, it involves making modern editions of some 391 Renaissance chansons, which we will be encoding in MEI. Based on database searches, excerpts from these songs will be dynamically displayed in a web browser.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Although we are encoding the modern edition of the piece, as opposed to the original mensural notation, we are attempting to make our scholarly editions (and hence our encodings) as transparent as possible to the original notation. As a result, our engraved editions make use of two bracket symbols, at least one of which is fairly common in the transcription of mensural music. [Follow the links for example images.]</span></div>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">A solid bracket <<a href="http://tinyurl.com/solidbracket"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); ">http://tinyurl.com/solidbracket</span></a>> indicates notes that were joined by a ligature in the source</span></li></ul>
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<li style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">A broken bracket <<a href="http://tinyurl.com/brokenbracket"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); ">http://tinyurl.com/brokenbracket</span></a>> indicates notes that were colored in the source; that is, their mensural values are indicated in part by their coloration</span></li>
</ul><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; ">I haven’t found any place in the Guidelines that describes what kind of elements might be used for these, whether specific or generic. A spanning element similar to <slur> is probably what is needed; is there a generic “grouping” element?</span><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Note that the Guidelines say that “[t]he <ligature> element should *not* be used for brackets in modern notation that indicate notes that were part of a ligature in the original source” <<a href="http://music-encoding.org/archive/tagLibrary/ligature"><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; color: rgb(2, 30, 170); ">http://music-encoding.org/archive/tagLibrary/ligature</span></a>>, and I assume that the @coloration attribute should similarly not be misused.</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Does anyone have any ideas about encoding these symbols?</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span><br></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Micah Walter</span></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12px; font-family: Helvetica; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Haverford College</span></div></body></html>