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Music Notation CG next-generation music markup proposal.
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Need to model alternative renditions of scores #58

Closed joeberkovitz closed 1 month ago

joeberkovitz commented 6 years ago

The <collection> element gathers together parts of scores that together make up a whole, such as movements or sections.

MNX however lacks a way of describing that two different scores are alternative renditions of the same music. For example, there is no way to incorporate a CWMNX score and a GMNX score in a container and state that they are different encodings of the same work.

joeberkovitz commented 6 years ago

This issue also pertains to alternative semantic representations of the same music (say, individual parts vs. full score).

See @clnoel's comment on #74.

mscuthbert commented 6 years ago

I'll post and edit this comment with some examples, mainly from the med/Ren repertory:

A Renaissance (white notation) version of a piece with its retranscription into modern noteshapes (but using the same value): https://bustena.files.wordpress.com/2015/06/dufay_kyrie1_tenor.png

Ockeghem's famous canon where multiple voices read the same music under different mensuration signs (which affect not only the placement of barlines but also the interpretation of dots, etc.): original: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b8/Ockeghem_Prolationum_Kyrie_mensural.svg/2000px-Ockeghem_Prolationum_Kyrie_mensural.svg.png realization: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Ockeghem_Prolationum_Kyrie_incipit.svg/400px-Ockeghem_Prolationum_Kyrie_incipit.svg.png

A canon of the l'homme arme in original notation and realization placed graphically on the same page with connecting graphical elements: https://youtu.be/IrTtLNfq0x0?t=1m57s

Two notations of the same page being aligned with graphical placement indicating connections among parts, with variants interspersed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_p9WQlyVPrA

Five or six versions of the same little melody -- aligned with recorded music -- including distinctions between suggested performance and actual performance and an image of the sheet music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrOEOuwYy3M

mscuthbert commented 6 years ago

Bach's canons and their realizations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A41CITk85jk

adrianholovaty commented 1 month ago

Marking this as closed, for the sake of cleaning up our issue database.

For anybody visiting this issue page in the future: I believe our concepts of scores and layouts does a decent job of addressing this particular use case. A single MNX document can specify multiple types of graphical displays of the same underlying music. See this example: https://w3c.github.io/mnx/docs/mnx-reference/examples/multiple-layouts/