[MEI-L] ensemble

[Roland, Perry (pdr4h)]

Johannes,

<instrVoice> is required here in order to avoid a mixed content model in <ensemble> and to make the conversion from MARC to MEI easier.  

It is true that one could use @label on <ensemble> to hold the name of the ensemble, however, this would disallow the possibility of using markup in the name and would be an abuse of @label, since it should not be used to capture "content", but rather a string that identifies the content.

For example, a document may contain "My name: Perry".  In this case, "My name:" is the label for the content "Perry".  The proper markup for this construct is

  <name label="My name:">Perry</name>
  NOT
  <name label="Perry"/>

By analogy, the markup for ensemble is

  <ensemble label="Ensemble">
    <instrVoice>Orchestra</instrVoice>
  </ensemble>

   NOT

  <ensemble label="Orchestra"/>

--
p.

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From: mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de [mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] on behalf of Johannes Kepper [kepper at edirom.de]
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2011 7:44 AM
To: Music Encoding Initiative
Subject: [MEI-L] ensemble

Hi list,

Axel and Detmold are working on the perfMedium model. We're wondering about the use of <instrVoice> as required first child of <ensemble>, especially since there is the common attribute @label available on <ensemble>. Anyone out there who knows about this?

Thanks,
Johannes
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