[MEI-L] Sample encoding of mensural notation

[Martha Thomae]

Hi Daniel

Perry is right, the JRP only contains modern transcription of mensural
music.

I am currently working with Mensural MEI files, and something I found
really useful is an example of a Mensural MEI file in the Verovio webpage
at this particular address: *http://www.verovio.org/features.xhtml?id=mensural
<http://www.verovio.org/features.xhtml?id=mensural>*
You can download the whole file (it is larger than the short excerpt shown
there). It includes everything one needs know, you can see how they encoded
imperfections, alterations, dots and their effect in the note (augmentation
or division), changes in mensuration, etc. It also includes coloration, but
I think there is no agreement between the Mensural MEI community in how to
encode this particular feature (although I think the way it is encoded in
this example from the Verovio webpage is really good).

Hope this helps,

Martha

Martha E. Thomae
DDMAL Lab,
Music Technology
McGill University

On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 6:10 PM, Eleanor Selfridge-Field <
esfield at stanford.edu> wrote:

> Perry,
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> You’re right: I’m not current with the latest version, but I passed the
> info on to Craig.
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> It would obviously be best if someone from the mensural working group
> weighed in on this.
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> Eleanor
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> *From:* mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de] *On Behalf Of
> *Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h)
> *Sent:* Friday, January 13, 2017 3:03 PM
> *To:* Music Encoding Initiative <mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de>
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> *Subject:* Re: [MEI-L] Sample encoding of mensural notation
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> Hi Daniel,
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> Unfortunately, the files Eleanor refers to are encodings of *modern
> notation/measured transcriptions* of mensural notation, not encodings of
> mensural notation per se.  They also don't validate against the latest
> version of MEI.  :-(
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> _________________________________________
> Perry Roland
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> Metadata Librarian for Research and Scholarship
> University of Virginia
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> *From:* mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de
> <mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de>] *On Behalf Of *Eleanor
> Selfridge-Field
> *Sent:* Friday, January 13, 2017 5:57 PM
> *To:* Music Encoding Initiative
> *Subject:* Re: [MEI-L] Sample encoding of mensural notation
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> Hi, Daniel,
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> There are hundreds of examples of the MEI encodings of mensural notation
> at the Josquin Research Project (http://jrp.stanford.edu).  The data here
> does not originate as MEI, so the examples are a little artificial.
> Nonetheless, the encodings provide a simple model of what this kind of
> notation looks like in MEI.  I looked at Dufay (
> http://josquin.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/jrp?a=mei&f=Duf3007.2) as an
> arbitrary choice.  (The display currently comes from MuseData.)  Here is
> Josquin’s Miserere: http://josquin.stanford.edu/
> cgi-bin/jrp?a=mei&f=Jos1803.
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> Best regards,
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> Eleanor Selfridge-Field
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> Braun Music Center #130
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> Stanford University
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> Stanford, CA 94305-3076
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> esfield at stanford.edu
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> *From:* mei-l [mailto:mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de
> <mei-l-bounces at lists.uni-paderborn.de>] *On Behalf Of *Daniel Alles
> *Sent:* Friday, January 13, 2017 3:36 AM
> *To:* mei-l at lists.uni-paderborn.de
> *Subject:* [MEI-L] Sample encoding of mensural notation
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> Hello everyone in the world of music encoding,
>
> at the moment, I am preparing my dissertation for my M.A.-degree at the
> Goethe-University in Frankfurt, Germany, which I am planning to write this
> year about the possibilities and difficulties of editing mensural
> notation.
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> Since I have barely no experience in encoding music at all (however, the
> tutorial an the MEI-Website was very helpful to get the first steps and to
> encode a first piece of CMN), I am now wondering, if I could find a sample
> encoding of mensural notation, to get an overview on how it is done. I
> tried encoding out by relating on a sample I found at
> http://www.digital-musicology.at/de-at/mei_mensual.html, but I'm not
> sure, whether I did something wrong or how else the common standard is. (If
> someone is interested: You can find my first attempts here:
> https://www.dropbox.com/sh/15v9inaose2z8e8/AACXfPru5v3H5fg2cwgNZJFKa?dl=0,
> all comments on them are very welcome!)
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> I did not find any MN-sample in the sample encodings package, so could
> anyone please send me one?
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> Yours sincerely,
> Daniel Alles
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*Martha E. Thomae*
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