[MEI-L] instrumentation in header

[Axel Teich Geertinger]

Dear all,

first of all thank you for the excellent virtual meeting! I really enjoyed hearing you all and even seeing some of you :-)

I have a question to the tech team: Now that we will soon have elements like <incip>, <key> and <castList> in the header, why not also add something like <instrumentList>? What these metadata have in common is that they are actually also contained in the score, although in a more or less “hidden” way, perhaps (as with key) requiring some analysis or interpretation.
Very much like the cast list, a list of instruments could in principle be harvested from a complete encoded score. In our cataloguing projects, however, the scores are not necessarily available, so we need to add that information either as a note somewhere in the header or in a staffDef, which does nothing but defining the instruments involved (a solution I would be happy to get rid of). The incipit will not do, as in many cases not all instruments will appear in it.
The same problem is true with choirs and vocal soloists, when they do not represent a named character and therefore will not fit into the castList.

Another question: why <incip>, and not <incipit>? We have quite long element names like <classification>, so why abbreviate incipit?

All the best,
Axel
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