Co-chair meeting minutes: January 25, 2024

MNX

Adrian has prepared a proposal for the encoding of articulations (issue #103). We discussed the pros and cons of storing articulations directly within the event or within a dictionary or list, and this became a wide-ranging discussion about how similar sorts of note- or event-specific notations – including ornaments, instrument-specific techniques, etc. – could be encoded. There is certainly a lot of detail for us and the community to get our teeth into.

The concrete outcome of this discussion was that we agreed it would make sense to encode the articulations within a structure (either a list or dictionary) in the event, rather than encoding each one in the top level of the event, because it seems clear that there will be many more items that need to be encoded at this level, and we want to avoid having too many top-level keys at the event level.

Community feedback on the proposal for articulations is welcomed.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs meeting will take place on Thursday 8 February.