music-encoding/guidelines

Revise 08: Lyrics and Performance Directions

kepper opened this issue · 7 comments

kepper commented

This issue can be used to discuss chapter 8 of the guidelines.

ndubo commented

I'm working on the revision of the guidelines chapter 8.1. How do I get to the embedded xml-examples?

ndubo commented

Found it. Thanks!

kepper commented

There is great overlap between chapters 3, 8 and 9. What follows is a proposal on how to structure chapter 8 (Lyrics) which seeks to deduplicate information between all three of them, and tries to propose a comprehensible order. Most notably, this tries to move performed text to 8, and everything else to 9. See also #82 (comment) and #88 (comment)

  • Intro (f necessary)
  • Lyric Syllables (was: 8.2.1)
  • Vocally performed text within notes (was: 8.2.2)
  • Vocally performed text encoded separately (was: 8.2.3)

Drama and stage directions are completely lacking so far…
Fingering (currently lacking, but listed as 8.4) should move to either Shared or CMN

rettinghaus commented

@kepper I'll add a bit about fingering in CMN.

th-we commented

Fingering is an interesting topic that might be sensible to discuss more in depth. I just looked through guitar notation, which has multiple categories of fingerings:

  • left hand
  • right hand
  • fret/position number
  • string number
  • barré indication

And for each category (except for left hand fingerings, as far as I'm aware), there is a multitude of historic and contemporary possible visual representations for the same semantic thing. There should be some best practice description for classifying fingerings, describing their logical meaning and their visual representation. But maybe that's too much to lay out in the guidelines, maybe that's something for the schema.

Any other instruments that would be interesting to look at? Brass, trombone, organ footings, percussion/mallets? (Woodwind diagrams are particularly challenging, better not open that can of worms right now.)

rettinghaus commented

@th-we I wonder, if att.stringtab is visual and to be used in non-tablatur notation. Would you open a new issue on fingering for the schema?