Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

Module

Attributes

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@left, @metcon, @right

@left(optional)Indicates the visual rendition of the left bar line. It is present here only for facilitation of translation from legacy encodings which use it. Usually, it can be safely ignored. Value conforms to data.BARRENDITION.

@metcon(optional)Indicates the relationship between the content of a measure and the prevailing meter. Value conforms to data.BOOLEAN.

@right(optional)Indicates the function of the right bar line and is structurally important. Value conforms to data.BARRENDITION.

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@left(optional)Indicates the visual rendition of the left bar line. It is present here only for facilitation of translation from legacy encodings which use it. Usually, it can be safely ignored. Value conforms to data.BARRENDITION.

@right(optional)Indicates the function of the right bar line and is structurally important. Value conforms to data.BARRENDITION.

att.meterConformance.bar(MEI.shared) Attributes that provide information about a measure's conformance to the prevailing meter.

@metcon(optional)Indicates the relationship between the content of a measure and the prevailing meter. Value conforms to data.BOOLEAN.

MEI.cmn

@left(optional)Indicates the visual rendition of the left bar line. It is present here only for facilitation of translation from legacy encodings which use it. Usually, it can be safely ignored. Value conforms to data.BARRENDITION.

@right(optional)Indicates the function of the right bar line and is structurally important. Value conforms to data.BARRENDITION.

MEI.shared

@metcon(optional)Indicates the relationship between the content of a measure and the prevailing meter. Value conforms to data.BOOLEAN.

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att.measure.log

<measure>Unit of musical time consisting of a fixed number of note values of a given type, as determined by the prevailing meter, and delimited in musical notation by bar lines.

MEI.cmn

<measure>Unit of musical time consisting of a fixed number of note values of a given type, as determined by the prevailing meter, and delimited in musical notation by bar lines.

Declaration


                                 <classSpec rend="add" ident="att.measure.log" module="MEI.cmn" type="atts">
                                    
                                    <desc xml:lang="en">Logical domain attributes. The n attribute contains a name or number associated with
                                       the
                                       measure (Read, p. 445). Often, this is an integer, but not always. For example, some
                                       measures,
                                       especially incomplete measures or those under an ending mark, may have labels that
                                       contain an
                                       integer plus a suffix, such as '12a'. Measures may even have labels, especially in
                                       editorial
                                       or analytical uses of MEI, that are entirely non-numeric strings. Measure numbers
                                       may be
                                       machine-generated instead of encoding them in the markup. However, an explicit measure
                                       number
                                       should restart numbering with the given value. The join attribute may be used to indicate
                                       another measure which metrically completes the current, incomplete one.</desc>
                                    
                                    <classes>
                                       
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="att.meterConformance.bar"/>
                                       </classes>
                                    
                                    <attList>
                                       
                                       <attDef ident="left" usage="opt">
                                          
                                          <desc xml:lang="en">Indicates the visual rendition of the left bar line. It is present here only for
                                             facilitation of translation from legacy encodings which use it. Usually, it can be
                                             safely
                                             ignored.</desc>
                                          
                                          <datatype>
                                             
                                             <ref name="data.BARRENDITION"/>
                                             </datatype>
                                          </attDef>
                                       
                                       <attDef ident="right" usage="opt">
                                          
                                          <desc xml:lang="en">Indicates the function of the right bar line and is structurally important.</desc>
                                          
                                          <datatype>
                                             
                                             <ref name="data.BARRENDITION"/>
                                             </datatype>
                                          </attDef>
                                       </attList>
                                    </classSpec>