{"id":854,"date":"2026-05-13T07:00:33","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/?p=854"},"modified":"2026-05-13T07:00:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T07:00:33","slug":"mnx-specification-working-group-meeting-may-12-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/2026\/05\/13\/mnx-specification-working-group-meeting-may-12-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"MNX Specification Working Group meeting: May 12, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">MNX<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>We began the meeting with a quick summary of the changes Adrian has made since our last meeting:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><code>pointing<\/code> now has an <code>auto<\/code> value;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>accents no longer have <code>pointing<\/code>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>fermatas now have <code>pointing<\/code>;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><code>event.markings<\/code> now all have an <code>orient<\/code> attribute that specifies whether they are above or below the staff;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>we now have a <code><a href=\"https:\/\/w3c-cg.github.io\/mnx\/docs\/mnx-reference\/objects\/bow-direction\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">bow-direction<\/a><\/code> marking;<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3c-cg.github.io\/mnx\/docs\/mnx-reference\/objects\/arpeggio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">arpeggios<\/a> (and <a href=\"https:\/\/w3c-cg.github.io\/mnx\/docs\/mnx-reference\/objects\/non-arpeggio\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">non-arpeggios<\/a>) are now implemented.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Adrian has also updated MNX in <a href=\"https:\/\/w3c-cg.github.io\/music-notationref\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">notationref<\/a> to account for these changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We spent the majority of the time resuming our discussion about the representation of dynamics, with a particular focus on how gradual dynamics (hairpins, <em>cresc.<\/em>, <em>dim.<\/em>, etc.) should be encoded. After some lively discussion, we arrived at consensus on an approach that Adrian will write up for community discussion in the coming days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Next meeting<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The next MNX specification working group meeting is scheduled for <strong>Tuesday 26 May 2026<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MNX We began the meeting with a quick summary of the changes Adrian has made since our last meeting: Adrian has also updated MNX in notationref to account for these changes. We spent the majority of the time resuming our &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/2026\/05\/13\/mnx-specification-working-group-meeting-may-12-2026\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7939,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-minutes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7939"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/854\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.w3.org\/community\/music-notation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}