Co-chair Meeting Minutes: October 13, 2020

MusicXML 4.0

Pull request #340, which addresses issues #279 for representing transpositions in concert pitch scores, #55 for differences in clef between concert and transposing scores, and #39 for octave transpositions in concert scores, has been merged.

One further issue is still marked as in progress: #54, concerning enharmonic indications for concert and transposing pitch. Michael will tackle this issue next.

MNX

James Ingram has created two pull requests, #201 and #202, to cover the removal of the container element as part of the completion of the name change from MNX-Common to MNX. #201 is good to go, except that changes for the MNX by Example page need to be added.

The co-chairs discussed pull request #202, which concerns the creation of a new specification document to cover the mnx-container element, on the grounds that the group charter still talks about it. The view of the co-chairs is that it is vital the group charter reflects the true focus of work of the community group; however, with active development underway on both MNX and MusicXML 4.0, now is not the time to spend our limited resources and attention on changes to the charter. As always, the co-chairs invite feedback from the community at large if there are other ideas.

The co-chairs also discussed issue #198 concerning beaming. The community has expressed doubts about the usefulness and practicality of defining high-level rules for beaming, and the co-chairs agree that this idea can be deferred for the time being. We agreed that we would focus on how beams should be explicitly encoded, and Adrian will put together at least one proposal for how this might be done, and add them to the issue for discussion in due course.

Next meeting

The next co-chair meeting will be on Tuesday 27 October.