[MEI-L] TEI with Music Notation

[Raffaele Viglianti]

TEI with Music Notation customization

The Text Encoding Initiative Special Interest Group in Music is pleased to
announce the results of a TEI-funded project to bring music encoding into
TEI documents.

Music, like many other art forms, is often mentioned, discussed and
described in writings of various kinds. This applies to both historical and
contemporary documents, even though the way of notating music has changed
considerably in western history. In most cases, music notation enters the
text flow in a way similar to figures, images or graphs. On other occasions,
elements of music notation are treated as inline characters in running text.

The TEI with Music Notation customization introduces a way of signalling the
presence of music notation in text, but defers to other representations to
describe the music notation itself, which is not covered by TEI guidelines.
In fact, several commercial, academic and standard bodies have developed
digital representations of music notation and, given the topic's complexity,
these representations often focus on different aspects and adopt different
methodologies. Therefore, the customization defines a container element to
encode the occurrence of music notation and allows linking to the data
format preferred by the encoder.  This element is called notatedMusic, which
has been proposed to enter the TEI specifications and TEI's namespace in a
feature request available
here<http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&aid=3086726&group_id=106328amp;&atid=644065>
for
further discussion.

The customization also allows the use of elements from the Music Encoding
Initiative format as content of the new notatedMusic element.

We would like to invite those of you who are interested in the encoding of
texts which contain music notation to access the documentation, the ODD and
the schema on the SIG's webspace:

http://www.tei-c.org/SIG/Music/twm/index.html

We consider this output as a *beta* release and we are very interested in
collecting comments, feedback and discussing possible use scenarios. Please
join our mailing
list<http://listserv.brown.edu/archives/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tei-music-sig&A=1>
if
you would like to discuss any aspect of this customization.

With kind regards,
Raffaele Viglianti


-- 
Raffaele Viglianti
PhD Candidate and PGRA
Centre for Computing in the Humanities
King's College London
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