[MEI-L] Thin brackets in orchestral scores

[Raffaele Viglianti]

I also feel a bit uneasy about this. Should we not encode what the bracket
indicates (a subgroup) rather than the fact that there is a bracket of some
sort?

Raf


On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Johannes Kepper <kepper at edirom.de> wrote:

> The reason why I feel slightly uneasy with this all is that it seems that
> we seem to enter the land of a music typesetting program here. In my
> ignorance about such details, I would probably encode that as a line, and
> ignore the fact that it is connected on both ends. In manuscripts, there
> would probably be no difference between this and either brackets or lines.
> But maybe you're right, and we should include the additional value. @Perry,
> do I remember correctly that you spotted some values in MusicXML not
> currently supported by MEI anyway? Is this an opportunity to revise them?
>
> jo
>
>
>
> Am 11.12.2013 um 14:39 schrieb Laurent Pugin <laurent at music.mcgill.ca>:
>
> > You are right, I think it is missing.
> >
> > There are actually a few of them in the examples, at least there is this
> one (however with no representation in the encoding)
> >
> http://www.music-encoding.org/sampleCollection/encodings/Berlioz_Symphony_op25.pdf
> >
> > Laurent
> >
> >
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 1:21 PM, TW <zupftom at googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Laurent's post made me wonder whether we might be missing an
> > additional value for staffGrp/@symbol for the thin bracket that is
> > used for sub-groups in orchestral scores[1].  Looking at some PDFs in
> > the sample collection I didn't see anything like that (I didn't look
> > through all of them).
> >
> > Thomas
> >
> >
> > [1] see e.g. http://notengrafik.com/pdf/examples/Tchaikovsky.pdf
> >
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