Music Encoding Initiative

The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven, open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure. MEI brings together specialists from various music research communities, including technologists, librarians, historians, and theorists in a common effort to define best practices for representing a broad range of musical documents and structures. The results of these discussions are formalized in the MEI schema, a core set of rules for recording physical and intellectual characteristics of music notation documents expressed as an eXtensible Markup Language (XML) schema. It is complemented by the MEI Guidelines, which provide detailed explanations of the components of the MEI model and best practices suggestions. Read more …

MEI is hosted by the Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz.

If you want to become an active MEI member, you are invited to read more about the MEI community and how to join us. You are also invited to contribute to the development of MEI on GitHub, either submitting issues or making pull requests to solve these issues.

News

Call for nominations 2024

Posted Oct 28, 2024

On 31 December 2024, the terms of three MEI Board members will end. In the name of the entire MEI community, the MEI Board expresses its gratitude to Benjamin W. Bohl, Anna E. Kijas, and Klaus Rettinghaus for their service and dedication to MEI.

MEC 2025 Conference

Posted May 25, 2024

MEC 2025 will take place Tuesday, 3 June - Friday, 6 June 2025 at City University of London, UK. The Local Organizing Committee Chair is David Lewis (Goldsmiths, University of London, UK) and Program Committee Chair is Anna Plaksin (Universität Paderborn, Germany).

MEC 2024 Conference

Posted May 6, 2024

The conference program for Music Encoding Conference 2024 is now available at www.music-encoding.org/conference/2024. MEC 2024 will take place Monday, 20 May – Thursday, 23 May 2024, at the University of North Texas in Denton, Texas.

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