[tei-council] Fwd: Some more on notatedMusic to the council

[Raffaele Viglianti]

Dear Council members,

Thank you for letting me post on this list temporarily!

Sebastian, I'm glad to see that we now agree on the role and position of 
notatedMusic.

> We need something more like<media>, with the same attribute set as<graphic>
> has now, I would suggest. I think that this would solve your problems,
> and mine (for video).

The problem here is still semantic. Music is a complex object, without 
clear definition and belonging to several different domains. The music 
we want to represent here is *exclusively* written. The name 
notatedMusic was chosen for exactly that reason. This is an important 
requirement for our small community. It is not possible to use the same 
element to point to *textual* notation, audio and video with the same 
element. Maybe this can help you understand the struggle here: would you 
use <media> to point to a TEI-encoded play by Shakespeare and <media> to 
point to a video recording of that play staged at Southbank?

If the reality is that we need semantic sugar ptr, the difficulty is 
coming up with "sugar" for notation files (and then there's the 
possibility of other user groups asking for "sugar" of their own, say, a 
special element for maps, posters, postage stamps, etc.). Do we need to 
go down this path?

A new element <media> could also be part of <notatedMusic>, but I 
suspect that the problem of embedding audio/video in TEI files should be 
resolved in a different place, with a different proposal. Adding the 
result of this other conversation to notatedMusic at a later stage 
should not create problems or, knowing the small community that will use 
this at first, stop us to get started.

Best,
Raffaele

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Raffaele Viglianti
PhD Candidate and PG Research Assistant
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London