Co-chair Meeting Minutes: September 14, 2020

MusicXML 4.0

Issue #304 concerning the documentation clarification for “none” clefs is complete and the pull request for issue #330 concerning broadening the set of SMuFL accidentals will be accepted straight after the meeting.

Now focus switches to issue #278 concerning the inclusion of multiple part documents within the same compressed MusicXML file.

MNX

The co-chairs have reviewed the discussion on issue #193 and have agreed that we can remove beams as structural elements and move towards a scheme of determining beams both in terms of a set of global document-wide rules for particular meters or classes of meter, and at a per-event level (for example, to define things like secondary beam groupings and the directions of fractional or broken beams). The MNX converter project and MNX Common by Example page will both be updated to remove the encoding of beams for the time being, and we will return to the nitty-gritty of defining beams in the near future.

The co-chairs also discussed issue #192, concerning the removal of the concept of profiles and the fall-out of the exclusion or inclusion of the specific items enumerated in the specification that are explicitly beyond the scope of the proposed standard profile, as was (including overriding the time and key signatures for a subset of parts, allowing noteheads on the same stem to have different note values, and so on). Adrian will create issues to cover the most important of these so that we can foster some community discussion in due course.

Next meeting

The next co-chair meeting will take place on Tuesday 29 September 2020.