Foreword of the Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021.

Conference proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2021 with Foreword by Stefan Münnich and David Rizo.

Over approximately the last decade, the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), has become a recognized international community-driven effort that has developed and maintains the MEI schema, standards, and shared documentation. The potential of machine-readable music data that can be reused, rendered, shared, or analyzed using a computer, is quite…[Read more]

Materials created for a Music Encoding Pedagogy Workshop facilitated at the American Musicological Society virtual conference on November 7, 2020. Workshop presents MEI use cases and approaches; pedagogical approaches; an MEI workflow; and options to publish MEI.

Presentation given as part of the session “Music encoding use-cases in US libraries: aims, pedagogy, and workflows” at the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) Congress held virtually on July 26-30, 2021.

A basic introduction to what XML is, to provide context for discussing MEI.

A guide to getting started with Notepad++ as an XML editor for MEI.

A brief discussion of how MEI works, with an introductory encoding exercise.

A basic overview of MEI for beginners.

A cheat sheet of basic code structures created for grad students working on a local project.

MEI-encoded scores are versatile music information resources representing musical meaning within a finely addressable XML structure. The Verovio MEI engraver reflects the hierarchy and identifiers of these encodings into its generated SVG output, supporting presentation of digital scores as richly interactive Web applications. Typical MEI…[Read more]

In this paper, we apply machine translation techniques to solve one of the central problems in the field of optical music recognition: extracting the semantics of a sequence of music characters. So far, this problem has been approached through heuristics and grammars, which are not generalizable solutions. We borrowed the seq2seq model and the…[Read more]

While the increase in digital editions, online corpora, and browsable databases of encoded music presents an extraordinary resource for contemporary music scholarship, using these databases for computational research remains a complex endeavor. Although norms and standards have begun to emerge, and interoperability among different formats is often…[Read more]