Dear Michael, some years ago Sam Barrett (Cambridge University) for the digital edition of the "Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum" (partial version in www.corimu.unisi.it) has invented a kind of alphanumeric transcription of neumes and neumatic melodies that is searchable by the software and by every search engine. It isn't a standard, but a practical way to encode neumes.(see Neume table under Tables Menu).
Best wishes
Francesco Stella
Universita di Siena
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Neven and others,
Last I looked MEI (and MusicXML) could not be used to handle neumes, as these were pitch-based rather than sign-based.
The only system for encoding neumes that I know of is Louis Barton's "Neume Notation Project," which is XML based I don't know if this is ready for prime time yet. You can find info at the following URL:
http://www.scribeserver.com/medieval/'
Kate Helsen and others are working on a neume transcription project (neume capture from digital images) as well, although I don't know how far along they are on this. I am working on a similar project that intersects these two, although progress will depend on me getting release time next year to focus on this.
Michael
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On Jan 24, 2013, at 12:56 PM, Torsten Schassan <schassan@hab.de> wrote:
Dear Neven, dear all,
first of all, thank you for your interest but all these questions are best addressed to the editors (Cc).
(And I haven't got a good answer to your question: What would be the "standard" encoding for neumes today? MEI?)
Best, Torsten
Am 24.01.2013 17:33, schrieb "Neven Jovanoviæ":
Dear Torsten,
thank you for directing us towards this very interesting edition.
Do you know, by any chance, why haven't the neumas been transcribed?
Best,
Neven
Neven Jovanovic
Zagreb, Croatia
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