Representing Atypical Music Notation Practices. An Example with Late 17th Century Music. Zitellini, R. & Pugin, L. In Hoadley, R., Fober, D., & Nash, C., editors, Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, TENOR 2016, Cambridge, UK, May 27–29, 2016, pages 71–76, Cambridge, UK, 2016. Anglia Ruskin University.
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From the 17th century to the first decades of the 18th century music notation slowly loses all its mensural influences, becoming virtually identical to what we would consider common modern notation. During these five decades of transformation composers did not just suddenly abandon older notation styles, but they used them alongside ones that would eventually become the standard. Void notation, black notation and uncommon tempi were all mixed together. The scholar preparing modern editions of this music is normally forced to normalise all these atypical notations as many software applications do not support them natively. This paper demonstrates the flexibility of the coding scheme proposed by the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), and of Verovio, a visualisation library designed for it. The modular approach of these tools means that particular notation systems can be added easily while maintaining compatibility with other encoded notations.

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