Music Encoding Conference, University of North Texas, 20-23 May 2024

Participants may join each session in-person or online, except where noted otherwise. Times are given in local conference time (CDT). Full session details, including Zoom links will be available in Conftool, https://www.conftool.net/mec2024/

Program Overview:
May 20, 2024: Workshops
May 21, 2024: Conference Day 1
May 22, 2024: Conference Day 2
May 23, 2024: Unconference Day

May 20, 2024: Workshops

  • 9:00-10:30AM
    AudiAnnotate Workshop (online)

    Conveners: Samantha J. Turner and Trent J. Wintermeier, University of Texas, Austin

    Created by Dr. Tanya Clement and Brumfield Labs, AVAnnotate is a free and open source workflow and application for sharing annotations of audio and video artifacts and making digital exhibits and editions with AV materials. Leveraging IIIF and GitHub for sharing curated annotations of audiovisual materials held at libraries, archives, and museums, AVAnnotate allows users to combine metadata for online audio and video assets with user-generated annotations and contextual essays to create simple web-based editions and exhibits. Learn more about AudiAnnotate.

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  • 10:30-10:45AM Short Break
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  • 10:45AM-12:15PM
    MEI Basic workshop part 1 (online)

    Convener: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas

    This workshop will proceed similarly to that of the previous three years, and is intended to give absolute beginners extended explanations of and practice with XML basics and rudimentary MEI encoding. The content will include, but not be limited to that of the MEI online tutorials, in order to maximize comprehension and retention of information through repetition and the gradual addition of new information in successive exercises.

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  • 12:15-1:00PM Lunch Break
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  • 1:00-3:00PM
    MEI Basic workshop part 2 (online)

    Convener: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas

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  • 3:00-3:15PM Short Break
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  • Rescheduled to Tuesday, May 21 at 3:00-5:30PM
    Metadata Editing in MEI (online)

    This workshop has been moved to Tuesday, May 21 from 3:00-5:30PM. Workshop details can be found there.

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  • 3:15-4:00PM
    Tour of Soundbox Music Makerspace
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  • 4:10-5:00PM
    Music Special Collections Showcase
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  • 6:30-8:30PM Opening Reception (in-person participants)

May 21, 2024: Conference Day 1

  • 9:00-9:15AM: Welcome (Chair, Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas)
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  • 9:15-10:30AM: Opening Keynote (Session Chair: Anna E. Kijas, Tufts University)
    Keynote Speaker: Dr. Imani Mosley

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  • 10:30-10:45AM: Short Break
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  • 10:45AM-12:00PM: Paper Session #1 (Session Chair: Johannes Kepper, Paderborn University, Germany)
    The “Clausula Archive of the Notre Dame Repertory”: End-to-end OMR, encoding, and analysis of medieval polyphony (Long Paper)

    Presenter(s): Joshua Stutter, University of Sheffield, United Kingdom

    Encoding and Analysis of Early Music: Aquitanian and Square Music Scripts (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Elsa De Luca, Martha E. Thomae, Vicente Urones Sánchez, NOVA University of Lisbon, Portugal

    Indexing Hymnody: Comparative Analysis and Opportunities for Interoperability (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University

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  • 11:45AM-1:00PM Lunch Break
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  • 1:00-2:30PM: Paper Session #2 (Session Chair: Joshua Neumann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
    MEI-Basic support in MuseScore 4.2 (Long Paper)

    Presenter(s): Laurent Pugin1, Johannes Hentschel2, Ioannis Rammos2, Andrew Hankinson1, Martin Rohrmeier2

    1:RISM Digital Center, Switzerland; 2: Digital and Cognitive Musicology Lab, EPFL, Switzerland

    Simplifying MEI for Searching Applications (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Jacob Ivan Stevenson, David Day, Brigham Young University, United States of America

    Issues of FRBR systematics in indexing sources that represent different versions of works. The example of Franz Liszt (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Matthias Richter1, Boris Voigt2

    1: SLUB Dresden; 2: University of Heidelberg

    Works of other authors and composers as templates – approaches to capture template research in digital music editions. A case study in the context of the Reger-Werkausgabe. (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Nikolaos Beer1, Alexander Nguyen2

    1: University of Paderborn, Germany; 2: Max-Reger-Institute, Karlsruhe/Germany

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  • Updated Time: 3:00-5:30PM
    Workshop: Metadata Editing in MEI (online)

    Convener: Clemens Gubsch, Austrian Academy of Sciences

    The comprehensive and standardized gathering of metadata within MEI plays a crucial role in various application scenarios, serving as a key factor in rendering research data in an easily searchable, reusable, and archivable way. Whether applied to music editions or work catalogues, essential and specific meta-information related to composers, works, and performances is consistently collected and subsequently presented online for users. This collaborative workshop aims to equip participants with fundamental understanding of metadata encoding in MEI. Theoretical concepts, including the use of FRBR and the incorporation of standard data, are elucidated, along with an exploration of the diverse components within the MEI header. Data entry will be evaluated across various application scenarios, focusing on selected works and manuscripts: In a first step, the participants should encode the given metadata manually. Different input editors are employed to provide users with insight into available applications and help them determine the one that best suits their project-specific requirements. The three applications are:

    • (Hands-On): MerMEId (The Metadata Editor and Repository for MEI Data (MerMEId) is a tool offering a web interface for the editing of MEI metadata, developed by The Danish Centre for Music Editing in Copenhagen. Since the end of 2019, MerMEId has been maintained and further developed as a community project by several institutions [ZenMEM, ÖAW, Oxford University]).
    • (Hands-On): WizKit (Environment for editing MEI metadata in oXygen XML Editor using oXygenForms to generate MEI-metadata. Developed by the ÖAW in 2023, WizKit allows users to display the entered data as static html via browser without having to resort to a larger technical infrastructure)
    • (Showcase:) Muscat (central cataloging program for musical sources for RISM catalog. Open-source-Software developed by RISM Digital Center)

    The possibilities for entering MEI metadata – all the information that can be stored in can become very unmanageable, especially for beginners. All three editors are used both to create metadata for already existing music encodings and to structure and manage more extensive data sets such as work catalogues, sources and performances as uniformly as possible. All input masks have their advantages and disadvantages, but nevertheless generate more structured data than is possible with manual encoding.

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May 22, 2024: Conference Day 2

  • 9:15-10:45AM: Paper Session #3 (Session Chair: Jesse P. Karlsberg, Emory University)
    Beyond the Standard Model (Long Paper)

    Presenter(s): Johannes Kepper, Lisa Rosendahl, Richard Sänger, Beethovens Werkstatt, Germany

    Modelling Multi-domain Voicing in the Goldberg Variations (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Sarah J. Monnier, James K. Tauber

    Modelling Performance – Conceptual Realities vs. Practical Limitations in MEI (Long Paper)

    Presenter(s): Joshua Neumann, Kristina Richts-Matthaei, Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz, Germany

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  • 10:45-11:00AM Short Break
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  • 11:00AM-12:00PM Performance & Media IG Meeting (Chair: Joshua Neumann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
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  • 12:00-1:00PM Lunch Break
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  • 1:00-2:30PM: Paper Session #4 (Session Chair: Maristella Feustle, University of North Texas)
    Critical Semantic Properties of Music Notation Datasets (Long Paper)

    Presenter(s): Markus Lepper1, Baltasar Trancón y Widemann1,2

    1:semantics gGmbH, Germany; 2: Hochschule Brandenburg

    GagakuXML: Markup for Hichiriki Scores and Enhancing Efficiency in Traditional Japanese Music Encoding (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Shintaro Seki, The University of Toyko, Japan

    Musical Instrument Encoding Matters (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Kyrie Ekaterina Bouressa, Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Canada

    Towards a standardization of lead sheet encoding: an experience in OMR. (Short Paper)

    Presenter(s): Patricia García-Iasci1, 2, Juan Carlos Martínez Sevilla1, David Rizo1, 3, Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza1

    1: University of Salamanca, Spain; 2: University of Alicante, Spain; 3: ISEA.CV

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  • 2:30-2:45PM Short Break
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  • 2:45-4:00PM Closing Keynote (Session Chair: Joshua Neumann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur Mainz)
    Keynote Speaker: Dr. Michael S. Cuthbert - Encode Fast, Decode Often

    Michael Scott Asato Cuthbert researches computational and algorithmic approaches to understanding music. He has received a Radcliffe Fellowship, the Rome Prize in Medieval Studies, and a Harvard Villa I Tatti Fellowship. Cuthbert created the open-source music21 toolkit and founded the Digital Humanities Lab at MIT where he is also Associate Professor. He is co-founder and Chief Musical Officer of Artusi, Inc.


May 23, 2024: Unconference Day

  • 9:15AM-12:00PM
    Community meeting (open to all)
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  • 1:00-3:00PM
    Interest group and project meetings

    Digital Pedagogy IG, MerMEId, Multilingual Tutorial Working Group