Co-chair meeting minutes: November 22, 2022

MusicXML

The social media accounts for MusicXML on Twitter and Facebook that have been maintained by Michael on behalf of MakeMusic will be transferred into the stewardship of the W3C Music Notation Community Group, with Myke appointed as the new maintainer of these accounts. These accounts will be handed over to Myke around the time of Michael’s retirement in January.

As a reminder, the W3C Music Notation Community Group also has a YouTube channel where recordings of our in-person and online meetings can be found.

MNX

Issue #287 with the proposal for how transposing instruments and differences in part layouts should be handled is still awaiting community feedback, which would be most welcome!

In the meantime, Adrian has been working on trying out these proposals in the mnxconverter project, including some refactoring on the main branch to prepare for the proposed changes to how pitch is handled in MNX (using sounding pitch instead of written pitch). In conjunction with this, Adrian has also created a new branch (mnx-287) in which he has tried out the importing of MusicMXL files and transposing the pitches in there to sounding pitch using a simple algorithm.

We also discussed the accidental attribute of the note element (see examples here). At the moment, accidental redundantly specifies the type of accidental that is also expressed as part of the micro-syntax for the pitch attribute. After some discussion, we agreed that Adrian should write a proposal for changing the meaning of the accidental attribute to capture whether and how the accidental is shown using a simple enumeration. Adrian will write an issue outlining this proposal in the near future.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs’ meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 6 December 2022.