2022 Music Encoding Conference Proceedings – Full volume.

Study and edition of the Complete Villancicos of Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), Chapel Master of Escorial Monastery in Spain

Study and edition of the Complete Villancicos of Padre Antonio Soler (1729-1783), Chapel Master of Escorial Monastery in Spain

Without fail a study in any depth of our fondness for music must eventually address the issue of consonance and dissonance. Past approaches to this issue have been bounded by a limited knowledge base and, further, marred by logical flaws, occasional hand waving, and the myopia of reductionism. Despite the explosion of progress in the last few…[Read more]

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]

Eighteenth-century Spanish music experienced a golden age thanks, especially, to the proliferation of centers such as the chapels, which articulated and structured the musical life of our cities: the main sound activity was centered on ecclesiastical music, both liturgical and paraliturgical, with which religious festivities were solemnized.…[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]

Writing Assessment Literacy (WAL). However, it is neglected in Iranian context. Taking the importance of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience with regard to writing assessment, the present quantitative study made attempt to investigate the effect of academic qualification, writing proficiency and teaching experience…[Read more]

Word acquisition was one of the important and essential parts for language learning. One of the learning difficulties that many L2 learners at all ages and proficiency levels face was meaningful vocabulary learning and retention as opposed to rote memorization of L2 words. Therefore, this study attempted to investigate the effectiveness of the…[Read more]

Due to subjectivity in oral assessment, much concentration has been put on obtaining a satisfactory measure of consistency among raters. However, obtaining consistency might not result in valid decisions. One matter that is at the core of both reliability and validity in oral performance is rater training. Recently, the Multifaceted Rasch…[Read more]

After the period of splendour experienced by the musical chapel of the Collegiate Church of Santa María la Mayor in Talavera de la Reina during the 18th century, we witnessed a period of decline, which was part of the crisis experienced by Spanish religious music during the 19th century. The effects of the War of Independence, the successive…[Read more]