[MEI-L] MEI advice please

[Byrd, Donald A.]

I'd say require the <layer> element. This seems like the kind of thing 
that's a minor nuisance in some ways but nothing worse than that -- and 
a much greater advantage in other ways.

--Don


On Mon, 4 May 2009 16:47:32 -0400, "Roland, Perry (pdr4h)" 
<pdr4h at eservices.virginia.edu> wrote:

> Eleanor,
>
> There are other elements for dealing with the kinds of things you
> mention.  I was only looking to address the usual structure of
> measures.
>
> --
> p.
>
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> [mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of Eleanor
> Selfridge-Field [esfield at stanford.edu]
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 4:43 PM
> To: 'Music Encoding Initiative'
> Subject: Re: [MEI-L] MEI advice please
>
> 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
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de
> [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] On Behalf Of Roland, Perry
> (pdr4h)
> Sent: Monday, May 04, 2009 1:18 PM
> To: mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
> 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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--
Donald Byrd
Senior Scientist
Adjunct Associate Professor of Informatics
Adjunct Associate Professor of Music
Indiana University Bloomington