[mei-tablature-ig] Music Encoding Tablature IG meeting and reporting (22 May)

[David Lewis]

Dear MEI Tablature Interest Group Members,

We’re approaching the date of the annual Music Encoding Conference run by the MEI folks, and that means (at least) two things:

 * Reinier and I will be asked to report on news and progress from our IG at the community meeting on the morning of Sunday 22 May EST (so afternoon in Europe).
     – If there’s anything we should announce, or any news you want to share, please let us know before then

 * There’s likely to be time allocated on that day for IG meetings. My assumption is that, if the conference is operating on EST and most IG members are either at the conference or in Europe, we should aim for an early slot. Please let me or Reinier know if you would like to come, but have time restrictions on that day – we’ll do our best to accommodate you.



I think a lot has happened in the past year or so:

  – we have basic tablature support from Verovio, which means we can render tabs (and mixed scores incorporating tabs) in a browser
  – we have a growing corpus being compiled on GitHub, donated by John Robinson
  – we have some robust tools for converting between tablature formats


I think these practical developments should help us keep our more abstract encoding discussions grounded in real cases. I’m sure that will also be helped hugely by John Griffiths’ new book, which I’m immensely looking forward to meeting.

Hoping to see you all in Halifax, whether physically or virtually,

David


P.S. I don’t think we have any tablature papers in the main conference per se, although I’m participating in a panel on music that isn’t CMN-based, where tabs will certainly be raised. I’d love it if we could aim to produce a panel or something like it for next year...