We present a new multi-layered, conceptual model for associating musical source materials to musicological arguments. We describe our proposal for operationalizing these concepts through a framework for musical annotation which we have implemented using RDF. Briefly stated, this model shows how portions of digitized data in various files and…[Read more]

The “Metadata Editor and Repository for MEI Data” (MerMEId) is a web-based tool to capture and enrich data in the MEI header. This tool was originally developed by Axel Teich Geertinger and Sigfrid Lundberg at the “Danish Centre for Music Editing”, under an open-source license. This poster describes the transfer of this project to communi…[Read more]

In this panel, we consider the role of MEI in providing common structures and meanings for heterogeneous musical practices and notations and, to a lesser extent, uses. Drawing on direct experience of working with particular cultural or historical material, we consider the robustness of the fundamental modelling of MEI, and its challenges and…[Read more]

Summary of an invited panel discussion at the Music Encoding Conference 2022.

The musical performance of a score is a domain rarely addressed in a reasonable level of detail by current digital music editions. A main reason for this may be a lack of suitable data formats that are capable of encoding more than ambiguous performance symbols or rather technical measurement series. The Music Performance Markup format is a recent…[Read more]

Over the last few years, OMR has been developed and studied. New perspectives have been provided that include handwritten music. Nonetheless, most of the research produced focuses on neumatic, mensural and cultured music. Barely any examples of non-canonical and modern music can be found. This paper is a statement of intention of a larger research…[Read more]

mei-friend is a ‘last mile’ editor for MEI-encodings intended to alleviate the common task of cleaning up encodings generated via optical music recognition, or via conversion from other formats. The open-source tool, building on the earlier mei-tools-atom codebase, was first presented to the MEI community at MEC ‘21, and has received more than…[Read more]

Encoding of western music notation is being standardized as a result of the dedicated work of the MEI and MusicXML communities. However, there is no machine-readable format for encoding traditional Japanese musical notation. This short paper discusses the use of MEI to encode traditional Japanese musical notation.

Full conference schedule, provided as the Appendix of the 2022 Music Encoding Conference Proceedings.

2022 Music Encoding Conference Proceedings – Full volume.

Publications on form in popular music have largely assumed the formal sections germane to pop-rock to be the formal designs of “popular music.” But the most popular music of our time—music charting on the Billboard Top-40—has absorbed the influence of electronic dance music (EDM) in a way that has fundamentally changed its formal structu…[Read more]

Tritones sounding over subdominant harmony, either as suspensions, accented passing tones, or incomplete neighbors, constitute a class of sonorities regularly heard in film and television music. I collectively refer to these phenomena as “subdominant tritones” (SdTT), and theorize a link between the SdTT and emotions it engenders. The article pre…[Read more]

Mensural MEI template for use with Encoding Mensural Notation with MEI slides. The slides are available at https://doi.org/10.17613/zqwr-xm82.

This set of slides was used both in a workshop, Digital Humanities in Early Music Research I, Session II – Early Music Databases and Encoding and in a Paleography course at University of Freiburg. They present the following topics: (1) A short introduction to MEI, (2) Basic Structure of an MEI file, (3) Examples, (4) MEI Technologies – Editors a…[Read more]

MEI template for use with the presentation, Codificación y publicación de música: Un taller sobre Music Encoding Initiative (MEI). Presentation slides can be accessed at https://doi.org/10.17613/fqbk-nz31.

This is a set of slides presented during the Semana de Humanidades Digitales (Week of Digital Humanities) organized by Digital Humanities associations in Mexico (Red HD), Colombia (Red Colombiana de Humanidades Digitales), and Argentina (Asociación Argentina de Humanidades Digitales). An MEI template (template_more_elements.xml) for use with the…[Read more]

The Measuring Polyphony YouTube channel has in-depth informational videos on using the MP Editor as well as short videos explaining individual functions of the editor. The Measuring Polyphony YouTube channel is organized into playlists that contain comprehensive training videos on how to use the MP editor: (1) Video summaries (1-3 mins) of how to…[Read more]