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as you know, I'm writing my M.A. thesis on digital editions of mensural notation, for which I'm transcribing and encoding a source of the 16th century. But that is just one part of my thesis, the other part will be a short review on the possibilities and limits of digital editions, problems while encoding (and decoding) etc.<br>
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For this second part, I would like to ask some questions about the work on digital editions: What are the possible uses of machine readable music-code? Of course I know, that MEI is still work in progress and that many tools are about to be developed, but are there any tools yet that are able to analyze a piece of music or to do something else with it (beyond displaying it more or less correctly)?<br>
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As you are Director of the CHMTL and therefore related to the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum, I hope you can help me finding some answers on the limits that music encoding has today. Maybe you encountered unsovable problems during setting up the TML, or problems that are solved now? It would really help me with my thesis, if I could find all those answers.<br>
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With best regards,<br>
Daniel</p></body></html>