[MEI-L] @loc vs. @pname (and @oct); sounding vs. written pitch

[Byrd, Donald A.]

Good point. Surely differing sounding and written pitches aren't a problem in themselves; we have trans.diat and trans.semi to handle piccolo, clarinet, saxophone, horn, trumpet, etc.! But harmonics (both natural and artificial) and especially scordatura, where different notes of a chord might have different transpositions, are more difficult. The word "scordatura" does not seem to appear in the 3.0.0 Guidelines, which makes me wonder.

My article, "Written vs. Sounding Pitch" (available at http://homes.soic.indiana.edu/donbyrd/Papers/WrittenVsSoundingPitch.pdf) describes 16 more-or-less nasty situations. It's not obvious to me what the implications are for @loc, @pname, @oloc, etc., but I'll bet there are some :-) .

--DAB


On Mar 10, 2017, at 11:47 PM, Thomas Weber <tw at notabit.eu>
 wrote:

> Am 10.03.2017 um 15:37 schrieb Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h):
>> The basic solution to this problem is to avoid double encoding; that is, only one of @loc or @pname should be used.
> 
> 
> I wonder how one would encode harmonics and scordatura where there are different notation approaches with potentially differing sounding and written pitch?  A combination of @loc and @pname/@oct is tempting, but as soon as there are accidentals involved, that doesn't work.  @ploc/@oloc feel more appropriate but won't properly work with accidentals either.
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Donald Byrd
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Indiana University Bloomington