Co-chair meeting minutes: February 8, 2024

MNX

Adrian has been continuing to think about how to encode articulations (issue #103). In order to side-step the issue of determining once and for all what constitutes an articulation, which could be a controversial issue, he is proposing that we use a less semantic, more general way of grouping notations that apply to all the notes in a chord, i.e. in MNX terms at the event level.

After some further discussion, we have settled on the idea of having an object called markings within event that defines a set of markings that can be added to the event; for example, staccato, tenuto, accent, marcato, and so on. These will be objects in their own right, but can typically be empty unless they need to define any specific additional information such as placement, symbol overrides, etc.

Having arrived at a consensus among the co-chairs, Adrian will now prepare a pull request with a proposal for community feedback.

Next meeting

The next co-chairs’ meeting will be on Tuesday 22 February 2024.