[MEI-L] MEI advice please

[Eleanor Selfridge-Field]

Where does "movement" fit in this scheme? Alternatively, what about parts of
an opera, cantata, or oratorio (overture, aria, recitative, chorus, duo,
and--if you look at Rossini--various morphs among most of the above)?

[I suppose I would tend to branch off for this whole apparatus right under
"score", but of course it's your choice.]

Eleanor


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Subject: [MEI-L] MEI advice please

Hi, all,

Up to this point, MEI has allowed both --

<measure>
  <staff>
    <layer>
      <note>
      <note>
      ...

and

<measure>
  <staff>
    <note/>
    <note/>
    ...

Is there any reason not to force the use of the first structure?  That is,
the <layer> element must be used even if there's only a single layer.  This
will add one more level to the structure of the tagging (and break any
existing markup), but it makes specifying the content of <staff> somewhat
easier.  That is, it makes it easier to deal with the differences between a
CMN score, which will have the following structure --

<score>
  <measure>
    <staff>
      <layer>

and a measure-less score, which will have this structure --

<score>
  <staff>
    <layer>

In either case the content of <staff> remains the same, i.e., one or more
<layer> elements.  Only the content of the <layer> element needs to change
from one kind of notation to the other.

Anyone see something I'm missing?

--
p.

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