[MEI-L] instrumentation in header

[Joachim Veit]

Dear Axel and all,
I heavily agree with Axel concerning the wish for an <instrumentList> in 
the header which would make it much easier for us in doing a sort of 
"simple cataloguing" of works: When we try to list the instruments of an 
opera, for instance, we do that in the moment (following Axel's model) 
in the scoreDef with staffGroup(s) - but in an opera there are changing 
instrumentations in each number, so we misuse this scoreDef as a 
"collective" form of listing all the instruments ever playing somewhere 
in the work. This is clearly the task of such an "instrumentList" which 
besides would make it easier to use a more abridged way of 
catalogue-encoding in the header.
Concerning incip I too would prefer to add the "it" at the end because 
"it" would not make any weighing machine complain?
And many thanks to you, Axel, for taking part in our discussions in the 
Virtual Meeting!!!
Best greetings,
Joachim
P.S. In a few minutes we shall make "it" - that's to say: start to drink 
a bee(r)!


Am 20.07.11 17:58, schrieb 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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