The comic adaptation of La vida es sueño by Calderón de la Barca (2018) emphasizes the emotion of anger as one of the forces that guides the plot. The protagonist, Segismundo, displays aggression through two main gestures: the clenching fist and the frown on his face. This article aims to answer the following questions: Why did the comic artist d…[Read more]

According to the medical tradition, the temperament of bodies came from the balance of their primary qualities – hot, cold, dry, and moist. However, physicians associated additional sensory properties with temperament in the field of pharmacology. These sensations included taste, color, and odor, which allow an appraisal of the constitution and a…[Read more]

This article shows how English supporters of Jewish immigration in the 1650s articulated a universal model of Christian hospitality for all foreigners fleeing religious persecution, regardless of whether they adhered to the Protestant faith of their English hosts. It thus urges a reconsideration of the widespread assumption that European…[Read more]

This essay reads Raphael, the principal expositor of scientific knowledge in Milton’s Paradise Lost, as embodying divergent, virtually antithetical, dispositions towards the prospect of free engagement with natural philosophy within the public sphere. At once stimulating Adam’s curiosity about the natural world while also overzealously cur…[Read more]

This article examines how Thomas Hughes’s “The Misfortunes of Arthur” pays homage to Elizabeth I through its eclectic use of Arthurian traditions and deployment of imagery centered on corrupted sexuality and the body politic.

Workshop material. This half-day workshop introduced strategies for handling XML when publishing with static site generators and front-end technologies. The workshop focused on isomorphic approaches to publishing XML data on the web or, in other words, publishing XML data with little or no transformation, or with a structure-preserving mapping…[Read more]

It is common engraving practice for “two or more players – or a divided string section with only single notes per division” (Gould 2011) to share a staff in an orchestral score, such as clarinet I and clarinet II. This practice addresses issues such as stemming, sharing musical content, placement of ties and slurs, and more. With respect to these…[Read more]

From antiquity, Galenic physicians extensively discussed the active powers of simple and compound drugs. In their views, simple drugs, that is, single ingredients, acted according to their material qualities and the properties of their substance. As for compound drugs, their efficacy resulted from the mutual interaction of their ingredients and…[Read more]

As practitioners and scholars who engage with music encoding we already understand the affordances that encoding music or text can bring to our research and scholarship. However, individuals who are not yet familiar with encoding schemas and the usefulness of digital methodologies may not have a clear understanding of the “why” in using a dig…[Read more]

Front matter for the Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2022.

Table of Contents for the Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2022.

Foreword for the Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2022.

Opening keynote of the Music Encoding Conference 2022.

Closing keynote of the Music Encoding Conference 2022.

A new digital encoding of 207 works by Alexander Scriabin is reported. The corpus includes all of Scriabin’s works for solo piano with an opus number. Each work is in the **kern format, having first been encoded into Finale, exported to a MusicXML file, and then converted using the musicxml2hum command. The corpus’s content and method of enc…[Read more]

Partitura is a lightweight Python package for handling symbolic musical information. It provides easy access to features commonly used in music information retrieval tasks, like note arrays (lists of timed pitched events) and 2D piano roll matrices, as well as other score elements such as time and key signatures, performance directives, and repeat…[Read more]

Chant notations are found across a large geographical area encompassing Europe and part of the Middle East (including the Levant and the historical Armenian lands). The Neumes Module represents a collective endeavour on the part of the MEI Community to capture in a machine- readable format the meaning of chant notations. In recent years intensive…[Read more]

In comparison to computational linguistics, with its abundance of natural-language datasets, corpora of music analyses are rather fewer and generally smaller. This is partly due to difficulties inherent to the encoding of music analyses, whose multimodal representations—typically a combination of music notation, graphic notation, and natural l…[Read more]

This paper presents the specifications of match: a file format that extends a MIDI human performance with note-, beat-, and downbeat-level alignments to a corresponding musical score. This enables advanced analyses of the performance that are relevant for various tasks, such as expressive performance modelling, score following, music…[Read more]

We present how the open-source web framework Dezrann enables users to hear, study, and annotate music by interacting with synchronized views such as image scores, rendered scores, videos, and representations of audio as waveforms or spectrograms. We encode as unit conversions the cross-modal synchronization between these music representations.…[Read more]