wergo/tablature-ig

Repo for The Tablature Interest Group

Tablature Interest Group repository

Contains example materials, draft documentation and MEI customisations to support the work of the Interest Group.

The aim of the Interest Group is to develop MEI for the encoding of repertories that use tablature notations. This involves making recommendations for extension, addition and amendment to future versions of the MEI schema and guidelines, and supporting the development of software tools to process MEI containing tablature. We ultimately aim to include as many tablature forms as possible, but are initially focussing on those for the guitar and lute family of instruments.

Examples

Examples have been chosen to test a broad range of the notation types that are currently 'in scope'. Images of the original sources used are accompanied by sample encodings.

Documentation

Documentation covers areas discussed in IG meetings. It is not yet complete or stable.

Schemata

This will contain ODD customisations of the MEI schema for our recommendations. Currently, they are customisations from previous work on this as part of the Transforming Musicology](http://www.transforming-musicology.org/) project.

Comprising of:

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