Co-chair meeting minutes: November 27, 2020
MusicXML 4.0
Issue #283 concerning the representation of swing in MusicXML has now had its corresponding pull request merged. Issue #345 concerning updating the level of the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) symbols that can be used in the play element has also been completed. Issue #306 concerning the representation of guitar bends on notation and tablature now has a pull request (#350) ready for merging, subject to any further community feedback.
Issue #37 concerning the representation of items that appear above the top staff or below the bottom staff is the next item that Michael is planning to tackle.
There has also been some constructive discussion on issue #295 concerning Roman numeral analysis, and Michael will encourage those community members who have an interest in this area to work on a proposal for inclusion in the spec.
Given the current rate of progress towards the initial milestone, the current target date of the end of January 2021 seems unrealistic, and Michael has moved that date back to the end of March 2021.
MNX
There has continued to be a good deal of discussion about how to encode beaming in issue #198, and Adrian has begun to implement the latest proposals in code in the mnxconverter project; this is not quite complete at the time of the meeting (with beams across barlines and secondary beam groups yet to be implemented), but Adrian reports that it feels good, and the current state can be seen in pull request #6. Once Adrian had the converter working, he was able to produce some more beaming examples for the MNX by Example page, which can be seen in pull request #205.
Adrian’s plan is to continue rolling on with this work and will update these pull requests accordingly.
Upon the completion of the work on beaming, Adrian plans to work on formalising the encoding of grace notes in the MNX by Example page, since there is an initial specification of grace notes in the specification. Any discussion concerning these examples should be added to issue #206.
SMuFL 1.4
Daniel continues to work on the last few open issues in the SMuFL 1.4 milestone and he believes everything is still on track to hit the milestone of the end of December 2020.
Next meeting
The final co-chair meeting of 2020 will be on Tuesday 8 December.
