MEI Tutorials

On this page, you’ll find a number of small tutorials for MEI, each of them introducing a specific feature.

If you’re about to start learning MEI, we recommend to start with the 5 minute Quickstart tutorial, which will let you encode a very simple melody with MEI.

If you’re about to write a new MEI tutorial, we recommend to start with the Writing tutorials tutorial, which will provide backgrounds about the necessary steps. Please also have a look at our list of missing tutorials on Github.

For community-created resources including tutorials and teaching material, see Community-Created Pedagogy & Praxis Resources.

For a Spanish translation of the tutorials, see Tutoriales en español.

Available Tutorials

A short tutorial about the basics of XML & MEI
A 5-minute Quickstart tutorial for MEI
An advanced tutorial on how to encode incipits in MEI
A short tutorial about chords in MEI
A short tutorial about rests in MEI
An advanced tutorial on the internal structure of MEI
Creating custom MEI profiles
An Introduction to writing MEI tutorials