model.transcriptionLike

Groups elements used for editorial transcription of pre-existing source materials.
Module
MEI.edittrans
Member of
model.paracontentPartGroups elements which may appear as part of the paragraph content model. A paragraph may contain inline elements and all other block-level elements except itself.
Members
Editorial and transcriptional component declarations.
<add>Marks an addition to the text.
<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.
<gap>Indicates a point where material has been omitted in a transcription, whether as part of sampling practice or for editorial reasons described in the MEI header.
<handShift>Marks the beginning of a passage written in a new hand, or of a change in the scribe, writing style, ink or character of the document hand.
<orig>Contains material which is marked as following the original, rather than being normalized or corrected.
<reg>Contains material which has been regularized or normalized in some sense.
<restore>Indicates restoration of material to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial or authorial marking or instruction.
<sic>Contains apparently incorrect or inaccurate material.
<supplied>Contains material supplied by the transcriber or editor for any reason.
<unclear>Contains material that cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.
Contained By
(MEI.edittrans) Groups elements used for editorial transcription of pre-existing source materials.
<abbr>A generic element for 1) a shortened form of a word, including an acronym or 2) a shorthand notation.
<add>Marks an addition to the text.
<addName>Contains an additional name component, such as a nickname, epithet, or alias, or any other descriptive phrase used within a personal name.
<addrLine>Single line of a postal address.
<anchoredText>Container for text that is fixed to a particular page location, regardless of changes made to the layout of the measures around it.
<annot>Provides a statement explaining the text or indicating the basis for an assertion.
<attacca>An instruction to begin the next section or movement of a composition without pause.
<beam>A container for a series of explicitly beamed events that begins and ends entirely within a measure.
<bloc>Contains the name of a geopolitical unit consisting of two or more nation states or countries.
<caption>A label which accompanies an illustration or a table.
<chord>A simultaneous sounding of two or more notes in the same layer *with the same duration*.
<contentItem>Contains a single entry within a content description element.
<corpName>Identifies an organization or group of people that acts as a single entity.
<corr>Contains the correct form of an apparent erroneous passage.
<country>Contains the name of a geopolitical unit, such as a nation, country, colony, or commonwealth, larger than or administratively superior to a region and smaller than a bloc.
<cpMark>A verbal or graphical indication to copy musical material written elsewhere.
<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.
<desc>Container for text that briefly describes the feature to which it is attached, including its intended usage, purpose, or application as appropriate.
<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>.
<district>Contains the name of any kind of subdivision of a settlement, such as a parish, ward, or other administrative or geographic unit.
<dynam>Indication of the volume of a note, phrase, or section of music.
<ending>Alternative ending for a repeated passage of music; i.e., prima volta, seconda volta, etc.
<expan>Contains the expansion of an abbreviation.
<f>Single element of a figured bass indication.
<famName>Contains a family (inherited) name, as opposed to a given, baptismal, or nick name.
<fb>Symbols added to a bass line that indicate harmony. Used to improvise a chordal accompaniment. Sometimes called Generalbass, thoroughbass, or basso continuo.
<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.
<fingGrp>A group of individual fingers in a fingering indication.
<foreName>Contains a forename, given or baptismal name.
<genName>Contains a name component used to distinguish otherwise similar names on the basis of the relative ages or generations of the persons named.
<geogFeat>Contains a common noun identifying a geographical feature.
<geogName>The proper noun designation for a place, natural feature, or political jurisdiction.
<graceGrp>A container for a sequence of grace notes.
<harm>An indication of harmony, e.g., chord names, tablature grids, harmonic analysis, figured bass.
<head>Contains any heading, for example, the title of a section of text, or the heading of a list.
<identifier>An alpha-numeric string that establishes the identity of the described material.
<imprint>Information relating to the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
<keySig>Written key signature.
<l>Contains a single line of text within a line group.
<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.
<layer>An independent stream of events on a staff.
<lem>Contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.
<li>Single item in a <list>.
<ligature>A mensural notation symbol that combines two or more notes into a single sign.
<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.
<metaMark>A graphical or textual statement with additional / explanatory information about the musical text. The textual consequences of this intervention are encoded independently via other means; that is, with elements such as <add>, <del>, etc.
<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.
<nameLink>Contains a connecting phrase or link used within a name but not regarded as part of it, such as "van der" or "of", "from", etc.
<nc>Sign representing a single pitched event, although the exact pitch may not be known.
<ncGrp>Collection of one or more neume components.
<neume>Sign representing one or more musical pitches.
<note>A single pitched event.
<num>Numeric information in any form.
<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).
<periodName>A label that describes a period of time, such as 'Baroque' or '3rd Style period'.
<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.
<pgFoot>A running footer.
<pgHead>A running header.
<postBox>Contains a number or other identifier for some postal delivery point other than a street address.
<postCode>Contains a numerical or alphanumeric code used as part of a postal address to simplify sorting or delivery of mail.
<rdg>Contains a single reading within a textual variation.
<reg>Contains material which has been regularized or normalized in some sense.
<region>Contains the name of an administrative unit such as a state, province, or county, larger than a settlement, but smaller than a country.
<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.
<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.
<rest>A non-sounding event found in the source being transcribed.
<restore>Indicates restoration of material to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial or authorial marking or instruction.
<roleName>Contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank.
<score>Full score view of the musical content.
<section>Segment of music data.
<seg>represents any segmentation of text below the "text component" level.
<settlement>Contains the name of a settlement such as a city, town, or village identified as a single geopolitical or administrative unit.
<sic>Contains apparently incorrect or inaccurate material.
<signifLet>Significantive letter(s).
<speaker>Contains a specialized form of heading or label, giving the name of one or more speakers in a dramatic text or fragment.
<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.
<stageDir>Contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment.
<street>full street address including any name or number identifying a building as well as the name of the street or route on which it is located.
<styleName>A label for a characteristic style of writing or performance, such as 'bebop' or 'rock-n-roll'.
<subst>Groups transcriptional elements when the combination is to be regarded as a single intervention in the text.
<supplied>Contains material supplied by the transcriber or editor for any reason.
<syl>Individual lyric syllable.
<syllable>Neume notation can be thought of as "neumed text". Therefore, the syllable element provides high-level organization in this repertoire.
<tabGrp>A group of simultaneous tab notes, comparable to a <chord> in CMN. Rarely, may also contain rests, as in some "German" lute tablatures.
<td>Designates a table cell that contains data as opposed to a cell that contains column or row heading information.
<tempo>Text and symbols descriptive of tempo, mood, or style, e.g., "allarg.", "a tempo", "cantabile", "Moderato", "♩=60", "Moderato ♩ =60").
<th>Designates a table cell containing column or row heading information as opposed to one containing data.
<title>Title of a bibliographic entity.
<titlePage>Contains a transcription of the title page of a text.
<titlePart>Contains a subsection or division of the title of a bibliographic entity.
<tuplet>A group of notes with "irregular" (sometimes called "irrational") rhythmic values, for example, three notes in the time normally occupied by two or nine in the time of five.
<unclear>Contains material that cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.
(MEI.shared) Groups elements which may appear as part of the paragraph content model. A paragraph may contain inline elements and all other block-level elements except itself.
<epigraph>Contains a quotation, anonymous or attributed, appearing on a title page.
<imprimatur>Contains a formal statement authorizing the publication of a work, sometimes required to appear on a title page or its verso.
<p>One or more text phrases that form a logical prose passage.
<quote>Contains a paragraph-like block of text attributed to an external source, normally set off from the surrounding text by spacing or other typographic distinction.
Common Music Notation (CMN) repertoire component declarations.
<attacca>An instruction to begin the next section or movement of a composition without pause.
<beam>A container for a series of explicitly beamed events that begins and ends entirely within a measure.
<graceGrp>A container for a sequence of grace notes.
<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.
<tuplet>A group of notes with "irregular" (sometimes called "irrational") rhythmic values, for example, three notes in the time normally occupied by two or nine in the time of five.
Critical apparatus component declarations.
<lem>Contains the lemma, or base text, of a textual variation.
<rdg>Contains a single reading within a textual variation.
Dramatic text component declarations.
<stageDir>Contains any kind of stage direction within a dramatic text or fragment.
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.
<add>Marks an addition to the text.
<corr>Contains the correct form of an apparent erroneous passage.
<cpMark>A verbal or graphical indication to copy musical material written elsewhere.
<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.
<expan>Contains the expansion of an abbreviation.
<metaMark>A graphical or textual statement with additional / explanatory information about the musical text. The textual consequences of this intervention are encoded independently via other means; that is, with elements such as <add>, <del>, etc.
<orig>Contains material which is marked as following the original, rather than being normalized or corrected.
<reg>Contains material which has been regularized or normalized in some sense.
<restore>Indicates restoration of material to an earlier state by cancellation of an editorial or authorial marking or instruction.
<sic>Contains apparently incorrect or inaccurate material.
<subst>Groups transcriptional elements when the combination is to be regarded as a single intervention in the text.
<supplied>Contains material supplied by the transcriber or editor for any reason.
<unclear>Contains material that cannot be transcribed with certainty because it is illegible or inaudible in the source.
Figures and tables component declarations.
<td>Designates a table cell that contains data as opposed to a cell that contains column or row heading information.
<th>Designates a table cell containing column or row heading information as opposed to one containing data.
Fingering component declarations.
<fing>An individual finger in a fingering indication.
<fingGrp>A group of individual fingers in a fingering indication.
Harmony component declarations.
<f>Single element of a figured bass indication.
<fb>Symbols added to a bass line that indicate harmony. Used to improvise a chordal accompaniment. Sometimes called Generalbass, thoroughbass, or basso continuo.
<harm>An indication of harmony, e.g., chord names, tablature grids, harmonic analysis, figured bass.
Metadata header component declarations.
<contentItem>Contains a single entry within a content description element.
Mensural repertoire component declarations.
<ligature>A mensural notation symbol that combines two or more notes into a single sign.
Names and dates component declarations.
<addName>Contains an additional name component, such as a nickname, epithet, or alias, or any other descriptive phrase used within a personal name.
<bloc>Contains the name of a geopolitical unit consisting of two or more nation states or countries.
<corpName>Identifies an organization or group of people that acts as a single entity.
<country>Contains the name of a geopolitical unit, such as a nation, country, colony, or commonwealth, larger than or administratively superior to a region and smaller than a bloc.
<district>Contains the name of any kind of subdivision of a settlement, such as a parish, ward, or other administrative or geographic unit.
<famName>Contains a family (inherited) name, as opposed to a given, baptismal, or nick name.
<foreName>Contains a forename, given or baptismal name.
<genName>Contains a name component used to distinguish otherwise similar names on the basis of the relative ages or generations of the persons named.
<geogFeat>Contains a common noun identifying a geographical feature.
<geogName>The proper noun designation for a place, natural feature, or political jurisdiction.
<nameLink>Contains a connecting phrase or link used within a name but not regarded as part of it, such as "van der" or "of", "from", etc.
<periodName>A label that describes a period of time, such as 'Baroque' or '3rd Style period'.
<persName>Designation for an individual, including any or all of that individual's forenames, surnames, honorific titles, and added names.
<postBox>Contains a number or other identifier for some postal delivery point other than a street address.
<postCode>Contains a numerical or alphanumeric code used as part of a postal address to simplify sorting or delivery of mail.
<region>Contains the name of an administrative unit such as a state, province, or county, larger than a settlement, but smaller than a country.
<roleName>Contains a name component which indicates that the referent has a particular role or position in society, such as an official title or rank.
<settlement>Contains the name of a settlement such as a city, town, or village identified as a single geopolitical or administrative unit.
<street>full street address including any name or number identifying a building as well as the name of the street or route on which it is located.
<styleName>A label for a characteristic style of writing or performance, such as 'bebop' or 'rock-n-roll'.
Neume repertoire component declarations.
<nc>Sign representing a single pitched event, although the exact pitch may not be known.
<ncGrp>Collection of one or more neume components.
<neume>Sign representing one or more musical pitches.
<signifLet>Significantive letter(s).
<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.
<addrLine>Single line of a postal address.
<annot>Provides a statement explaining the text or indicating the basis for an assertion.
<caption>A label which accompanies an illustration or a table.
<chord>A simultaneous sounding of two or more notes in the same layer *with the same duration*.
<desc>Container for text that briefly describes the feature to which it is attached, including its intended usage, purpose, or application as appropriate.
<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.
<ending>Alternative ending for a repeated passage of music; i.e., prima volta, seconda volta, etc.
<head>Contains any heading, for example, the title of a section of text, or the heading of a list.
<identifier>An alpha-numeric string that establishes the identity of the described material.
<imprint>Information relating to the publication or distribution of a bibliographic item.
<keySig>Written key signature.
<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.
<layer>An independent stream of events on a staff.
<name>Proper noun or noun phrase.
<note>A single pitched event.
<num>Numeric information in any form.
<ornam>An element indicating an ornament that is not a mordent, turn, or trill.
<p>One or more text phrases that form a logical prose passage.
<part>An alternative visual rendition of the score from the point of view of a particular performer (or group of performers).
<pgFoot>A running footer.
<pgHead>A running header.
<rend>A formatting element indicating special visual rendering, e.g., bold or italicized, of a text word or phrase.
<rest>A non-sounding event found in the source being transcribed.
<score>Full score view of the musical content.
<section>Segment of music data.
<speaker>Contains a specialized form of heading or label, giving the name of one or more speakers in a dramatic text or fragment.
<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.
<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.
<titlePage>Contains a transcription of the title page of a text.
<titlePart>Contains a subsection or division of the title of a bibliographic entity.
Tablature component declarations.
<tabGrp>A group of simultaneous tab notes, comparable to a <chord> in CMN. Rarely, may also contain rests, as in some "German" lute tablatures.
Text component declarations.
<epigraph>Contains a quotation, anonymous or attributed, appearing on a title page.
<imprimatur>Contains a formal statement authorizing the publication of a work, sometimes required to appear on a title page or its verso.
<l>Contains a single line of text within a line group.
<li>Single item in a <list>.
<quote>Contains a paragraph-like block of text attributed to an external source, normally set off from the surrounding text by spacing or other typographic distinction.
<seg>represents any segmentation of text below the "text component" level.
User-defined symbols component declarations.
<anchoredText>Container for text that is fixed to a particular page location, regardless of changes made to the layout of the measures around it.
Declaration
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<desc xml:lang="en">Groups elements used for editorial transcription of pre-existing source materials.</desc>
<classes>
<memberOf key="model.paracontentPart"/>
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