Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

Module

MEI.namesdates

Attributes

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model.nameLikeGroups elements that contain names.

Members

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MEI.namesdates

<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.

Contained By

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model.nameLike.agent(MEI.namesdates) Groups elements which contain names of individuals or corporate bodies.

<respStmt>Names one or more individuals, groups, or in rare cases, mechanical processes, responsible for creation, realization, production, funding, or distribution of the intellectual or artistic content.

model.nameLike(MEI.shared) Groups elements that contain names.

model.textPhraseLike.limited(MEI.shared) Groups textual elements that occur at the level of individual words or phrases. This class is equivalent to the model.textPhraseLike class without the pb element.

<dir>An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols, typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff — that is not encoded elsewhere in more specific elements, like <tempo>, <dynam> or <repeatMark>.

<dynam>Indication of the volume of a note, phrase, or section of music.

<f>Single element of a figured bass indication.

<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.

<gliss>A continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another, usually indicated by a straight or wavy line.

<harm>An indication of harmony, e.g., chord names, tablature grids, harmonic analysis, figured bass.

<label>A container for document text that identifies the feature to which it is attached. For a "tool tip" or other generated label, use the @label attribute.

<labelAbbr>A label on the pages following the first.

<octave>An indication that a passage should be performed one or more octaves above or below its written pitch.

<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.

<pgFoot>A running footer.

<pgHead>A running header.

<pubPlace>Name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.

<repeatMark> An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols – segno and coda – typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff.

<syl>Individual lyric syllable.

<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo", "cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").

model.textPhraseLike(MEI.shared) Groups textual elements that occur at the level of individual words or phrases.

<date>A string identifying a point in time or the time period between two such points.

<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.

<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.

<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.

macro.titlePart(MEI.shared) Groups elements that may appear as part of a bibliographic title.

<title>Title of a bibliographic entity.

MEI.cmn

<gliss>A continuous or sliding movement from one pitch to another, usually indicated by a straight or wavy line.

<octave>An indication that a passage should be performed one or more octaves above or below its written pitch.

<repeatMark> An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols – segno and coda – typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff.

MEI.fingering

<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.

MEI.harmony

<f>Single element of a figured bass indication.

<harm>An indication of harmony, e.g., chord names, tablature grids, harmonic analysis, figured bass.

MEI.namesdates

<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.

MEI.shared

<date>A string identifying a point in time or the time period between two such points.

<dir>An instruction expressed as a combination of text and symbols, typically above, below, or between staves, but not on the staff — that is not encoded elsewhere in more specific elements, like <tempo>, <dynam> or <repeatMark>.

<dynam>Indication of the volume of a note, phrase, or section of music.

<label>A container for document text that identifies the feature to which it is attached. For a "tool tip" or other generated label, use the @label attribute.

<labelAbbr>A label on the pages following the first.

<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.

<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.

<pgFoot>A running footer.

<pgHead>A running header.

<pubPlace>Name of the place where a bibliographic item was published.

<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.

<respStmt>Names one or more individuals, groups, or in rare cases, mechanical processes, responsible for creation, realization, production, funding, or distribution of the intellectual or artistic content.

<syl>Individual lyric syllable.

<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo", "cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").

<title>Title of a bibliographic entity.

Declaration


                                 <classSpec rend="add" ident="model.nameLike.agent" module="MEI.namesdates" type="model">
                                    
                                    <desc xml:lang="en">Groups elements which contain names of individuals or corporate bodies.</desc>
                                    
                                    <classes>
                                       
                                       
                                       <memberOf key="model.nameLike"/>
                                       </classes>
                                    </classSpec>