[MEI-L] Conventional encoding of suggested accidentals (ficta)?

Raffaele Viglianti raffaeleviglianti at gmail.com
Fri Jun 21 23:06:11 CEST 2013


Hello,

What about:

<supplied reason="ficta">
  <accid accid="s" place="above"/>
</supplied>

Raffaele


On Fri, Jun 21, 2013 at 4:58 PM, Johannes Kepper <kepper at edirom.de> wrote:

> Hi Guiliano and Micah,
>
> @accid.ges is frequently used to make an accidental specified by the key
> signature explicit for individual notes. In F-maj, you wouldn't use
> @accid="f" on every b, but adding @accid.ges="f" for every b makes
> processing much easier. @accid.ges denotes an accidental that is audible,
> but not visible. However, the absence of the attribute doesn't mean that
> the b should be played as natural in F-maj. So in most cases, it is just a
> convenience, but the attribute can be very handy when it comes to
> specifying the range of written accidentals, which doesn't necessarily end
> at the barline in certain repertoires.
>
> Regarding the original question, there are more valid answers. My first
> take would be to keep it as simple as possible. Obviously, the @accid
> attribute doesn't allow any additional markup to specify it's function. The
> next best solution is to use the <accid> child of <note>. Besides an @accid
> attribute, it also has @func (allowed values: 'edit' or 'caution') and
> @place. Your example could be encoded like so:
>
> <note pname="g" oct="4" dur="2">
>         <accid accid="s" func="edit" place="above"/>
> </note>
>
> Of course, you could provide an @accid.ges on the note, if this helps your
> workflow. Editorial markup like <choice> (with a pair of <orig> and <reg>)
> or (maybe more appropriate) <supplied> is equally possible, but not
> necessarily required for your purpose (as far as I understand). Since your
> encoding reflects a translation into a different notational system anyway,
> I think it's not necessary to make the music ficta even more special than
> in the solution suggested above.
>
> Hope this helps,
> Johannes
>
>
> Am 21.06.2013 um 21:21 schrieb Giuliano Di Bacco <gdibacco at indiana.edu>:
>
> >
> > Hello,
> > and thanks to Micah for asking this question. I am also interested in
> how to approach this issue.
> >     At the moment I am not working on specific examples but just
> browsing the guidelines (I take it that we are not talking about rendering
> the position of the accident above the note but the meaning of it = markup)
> and was wondering whether the @accid.ges attribute
> (att.accidental.performed) could handle this.
> >     Guidelines: "records the performed pitch inflection when it differs
> from the written accidental". It seems that it can be an attribute of
> <note>. So, what if a note has no written accidental, but an accidental
> needs to be performed? Here we are not dealing with an editorial amendment
> proper (<supplied>) but we are to make explicit what is implicit in how the
> music works (or what the editor believes the original notation means). I
> thought that @accid.ges may be a possible alternative to <reg> (which
> otherwise I would be inclined to use).
> >     If I am wrong as I suspect ("ges" stands for "gestural"), could
> somebody please spend a few words on the intended use of accid.ges?
> >
> > Thanks & cheers
> > Giuliano
> >
> > --
> > Giuliano Di Bacco
> > Director, Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature
> > Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
> > Bloomington, IN 47405 - USA - www.chmtl.indiana.edu
> > Project Director, Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum
> >
> >
> > Micah Walter wrote on 21/06/2013 14:06:
> >> Hello, all,
> >>
> >> My latest question relevant to encoding modern editions of Renaissance
> music deals with editorial accidentals, as in the case of musica ficta.
> Such an accidental is conventionally placed above the single note it
> affects (see attachment).
> >>
> >> Possibly the option that best makes use of the intent of MEI's elements
> would be to use the <add> tag, containing the single <accid> element. Or
> maybe <supplied> would work as well. Another solution might be to encode
> the editorial meaning of such an accidental using the <choice> tag; while
> <orig> seems to work for the original reading, the best tag for the
> editorial reading is unclear. <reg>?
> >>
> >> Has anyone dealt with this issue before?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Micah
> >>
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