[mei-neumes-ig] Background

[Ichiro Fujinaga]

Greetings,

Perry Roland has graciously offered to help us with building the MEI Neume Customization Module.

Here’s what I sent to him.
If there’re any corrections or additions please post them here.

He has questions which I will post separately.

Ich

> On Jun 7, 2016, at 11:28 AM, Ichiro Fujinaga <ich at music.mcgill.ca> wrote:
> 
> That would be great!
> Thank you for offering your expertise!
> 
> I’ll try to summarize what we discussed:
> 
> First, a neume consists of one or more neume component(s) (nc); musicologists call this a “pitch”.
> 
> For each nc, there are two major (mandatory?) properties: “relation to previous” and “connection (type)”.
> “Relation to previous” is basically the relative height position to the previous nc.
> “Connection” is how the current nc is connected to the previous nc.
> 
> There seems to be six (6) different types of “relation to previous”: High, Low, Neutral (or Unknown), Same, Same or higher, and Same or lower.
> 
> The eight (8) “connection” types are: Curbed clockwise, Curbed anti-clockwise, Angular, Gap, Quilisma curve 2,  Quilisma curve 3, Looped, and V-shape.
> 
> Then there are several optional attributes or modifications that can be applied to each nc:
> Episema, Liquescent, Jagged, Oriscus, Long, Flat, and Crook.
> 
> Finally, there are attributes/modification that can be applied to the entire neume:
> Significative letters, After lower, After higher, Hispanic tick 1, and Hispanic tick 2.
> 
> There are other symbols unrelated to nuemes, such as clefs, repeat signs, modal alphabetic letters, repetenda signs, custos, unknown or “Mysterious” symbols, and scribal angle (I don’t know what this means).
> 
> I’m attaching a spreadsheet containing some of examples of neumes with some of the combinations of the above attributes.
> There are some codings in there that needs clarification, such as “op” and “W3”. I will ask on the neume mailing list.
> 
> I hope I’ve given you something to get started. Let me know if you have questions, most of which I will probably have to referred to the experts.
> 
> Thank you again for your help!
> 
> Ich
> 
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