MEI Customisations for Transforming Musicology

Contains customisations of MEI used in the Transforming Musicology project.

Currently these comprise just:

instruments

Allows describing <perfRes> instruments in more detail. Adds some playing technique marking elements.

frettab

Allows marking up of tablatures for fretted string instruments.

Using Roma with the ODDs

The customisations are contained in two ODD files (plus one container ODD file, mei-frettab.odd, that pulls in all of MEI plus the two new modules). The mei-frettab.odd uses <specGrpRef> elements to reference the two ODD files. The Roma tool requires that the @target attribute of <specGrpRef> be an absolute URI so in the version included in this repository the two elements use unresolvable URIs. Before building you need to edit the @target attribute values changing them to the absolute paths to the two files. E.g.:

<specGrpRef target="file:///path/to/tmus-mei/schemata/instruments.odd#instruments" />
<specGrpRef target="file:///path/to/tmus-mei/schemata/frettab.odd#frettab" />

In order to compile these into a schema file (XSD, RNG, etc.) you need to use the 7.17.0 release (or later) of the TEI stylesheets. The build process goes something like:

$ git clone https://github.com/TEIC/Roma.git
$ ln -s Roma/roma2.sh /path/to/bin/roma   # e.g. /usr/local/bin
$ git clone https://github.com/TEIC/Stylesheets.git tei-xsl
$ cd tei-xsl && make
$ git clone https://github.com/music-encoding/music-encoding.git mei
$ roma --xsl=/path/to/tei-xsl/ --localsource=/path/to/mei/source/driver.xml /absolute/path/to/mei-tmus/schemata/mei-frettab.odd