Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

Module

Attributes

compact
full definition
by class
by module

breaksec

breaksec(optional)Presence of this attribute indicates that the secondary beam should be broken following this note/chord. The value of the attribute records the number of beams which should remain unbroken. Value is a positive integer.

att.beamSecondary(MEI.cmn) Attributes that capture information about secondary beaming.

breaksec(optional)Presence of this attribute indicates that the secondary beam should be broken following this note/chord. The value of the attribute records the number of beams which should remain unbroken. Value is a positive integer.

MEI.cmnCommon Music Notation (CMN) repertoire component declarations.

breaksec(optional)Presence of this attribute indicates that the secondary beam should be broken following this note/chord. The value of the attribute records the number of beams which should remain unbroken. Value is a positive integer.

Available at

compact
by class
by module

chord

att.chord.vis.cmn

att.chord.vis

chordA simultaneous sounding of two or more notes in the same layer *with the same duration*.

MEI.sharedComponent declarations that are shared between two or more modules.

chordA simultaneous sounding of two or more notes in the same layer *with the same duration*.

Declaration


                                 <classSpec ident="att.chord.vis.cmn" module="MEI.cmn" type="atts">
                                    
                                    <desc xml:lang="en">Visual domain attributes for chord. The slur, slur.dir, slur.rend, tie, tie.dir, and
                                       tie.rend attributes here are "syntactic sugar" for these attributes on each of the
                                       chord's
                                       individual notes. The values here apply to all the notes in the chord. If some notes
                                       are
                                       slurred or tied while others aren't, then the individual note attributes must be used.</desc>
                                    
                                    <classes>
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.beamSecondary"/>
                                       </classes>
                                    </classSpec>