[mei-neumes-ig] Style name

[Roland, Perry D. (pdr4h)]

Hi Andrew,

The <styleName> element has been present since the earliest versions of MEI, although v. 2010-05 is when it got a camel-cased name.  It can occur anywhere transcribed text is allowed.  It's intended to be used to mark a stylistic term in para-text and metadata.  <styleName> is not a metadata "field" / container itself and therefore doesn't occur directly within the header, say in <encodingDesc>, because allowing it there would place it in competition with <classification>.

However, 3.0.0 does provide a pair of new attributes on <staffDef> that can be used to describe the notation on each staff.  The @notationtype may take the values "cmn", "mensural", "mensural.black", "mensural.white", "neume", and "tab", while @notationsubtype may take any textual value.  If a 3-tiered classification is necessary for neume notation (like that provided for via the "mensural.black" and "mensural.white" values plus subtype) we can extend the value set for @notationtype.

--
p.

__________________________
Perry Roland
Music Library
University of Virginia
P. O. Box 400175
Charlottesville, VA 22904
434-982-2702 (w)
pdr4h (at) virginia (dot) edu
________________________________________
From: mei-neumes-ig [mei-neumes-ig-bounces+pdr4h=eservices.virginia.edu at lists.uni-paderborn.de] on behalf of Andrew Hankinson [andrew.hankinson at mail.mcgill.ca]
Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 1:31 PM
To: mei-neumes-ig at lists.uni-paderborn.de
Subject: [mei-neumes-ig] Style name

Hi all (but esp. Perry):

I was just perusing the new 3.0.0 guidelines, and noticed a new element: "<styleName>".

The documentation for it says "A label for a characteristic style of writing or performance, such as 'bebop' or 'rock-n-roll'." Is one possible use of this as an identifier of notation-specific writing styles like "st. gall" or "square neumes"?

I just wanted to check because I seem to remember Perry and I having long arguments over how to best capture this, and am surprised to see it there now. :)

-Andrew


_______________________________________________
mei-neumes-ig mailing list
mei-neumes-ig at lists.uni-paderborn.de
https://lists.uni-paderborn.de/mailman/listinfo/mei-neumes-ig