<attacca>An instruction to begin the next section or movement of a composition without
pause.
<corr>Contains the correct form of an apparent erroneous passage.
<damage>Contains an area of damage to the physical medium.
<del>Contains information deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as
superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
<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>.
<ending>Alternative ending for a repeated passage of music; i.e., prima volta, seconda volta,
etc.
<layer>An independent stream of events on a staff.
<lem>Contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.
<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.
<oLayer>A layer that contains an alternative to material in another layer.
<oStaff>A staff that holds an alternative passage which may be played instead of
the original material.
<orig>Contains material which is marked as following the original, rather than
being normalized or corrected.
<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.
<part>An alternative visual rendition of the score from the point of view of a particular
performer (or group of performers).
<pgDesc>Contains a brief prose description of the appearance or description
of the content of a physical page.
<rdg>Contains a single reading within a textual variation.
<reg>Contains material which has been regularized or normalized in some
sense.
<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.
<restore>Indicates restoration of material to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial
or
authorial marking or instruction.
<staff>A group of equidistant horizontal lines on which notes are placed in order to represent
pitch or a grouping element for individual 'strands' of notes, rests, etc. that may
or may not
actually be rendered on staff lines; that is, both diastematic and non-diastematic
signs.
<supplied>Contains material supplied by the transcriber or editor for any reason.
<syllable>Neume notation can be thought of as "neumed text". Therefore, the syllable element
provides high-level organization in this repertoire.
<symbolDef>Declaration of an individual symbol in a symbolTable.
<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo",
"cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").
<unclear>Contains material that cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible
or
inaudible in the source.
Common Music Notation (CMN) repertoire component declarations.
<attacca>An instruction to begin the next section or movement of a composition without
pause.
<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.
<oLayer>A layer that contains an alternative to material in another layer.
<oStaff>A staff that holds an alternative passage which may be played instead of
the original material.
<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.
Critical apparatus component declarations.
<lem>Contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.
<rdg>Contains a single reading within a textual variation.
Editorial and transcriptional component declarations.
<abbr>A generic element for 1) a shortened form of a word, including an acronym
or 2) a shorthand notation.
<corr>Contains the correct form of an apparent erroneous passage.
<damage>Contains an area of damage to the physical medium.
<del>Contains information deleted, marked as deleted, or otherwise indicated as
superfluous or spurious in the copy text by an author, scribe, annotator, or corrector.
<syllable>Neume notation can be thought of as "neumed text". Therefore, the syllable element
provides high-level organization in this repertoire.
Component declarations that are shared between two or more modules.
<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>.
<ending>Alternative ending for a repeated passage of music; i.e., prima volta, seconda volta,
etc.
<layer>An independent stream of events on a staff.
<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.
<part>An alternative visual rendition of the score from the point of view of a particular
performer (or group of performers).
<pgDesc>Contains a brief prose description of the appearance or description
of the content of a physical page.
<staff>A group of equidistant horizontal lines on which notes are placed in order to represent
pitch or a grouping element for individual 'strands' of notes, rests, etc. that may
or may not
actually be rendered on staff lines; that is, both diastematic and non-diastematic
signs.
<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo",
"cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").
User-defined symbols component declarations.
<symbolDef>Declaration of an individual symbol in a symbolTable.