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.
Posted Jun 6, 2022
We’re happy to announce that Enote in Berlin (Germany) will host the next MEI Developer Meeting (local organization: Klaus Rettinghaus).
Posted Jun 6, 2022
The 2022 Teaching Music History Conference, organized by the Pedagogy Study Group of the American Musicological Society, will take place June 10-11 (Friday–Saturday) at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. You may view the program at https://www.teachingmusichistory.com/2022/03/19/tmhc2022-schedule/, registration links and further information can be found here: https://www.teachingmusichistory.com/events/tmhc2022/. The conference will also be livestreamed for registrants who cannot attend in-person.
Posted May 19, 2022
It is our great pleasure to announce the upload of the MEC 2021 Proceedings to Humanities Commons: https://doi.org/10.17613/fc1c-mx52.