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The Music Encoding Initiative

The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is a community-driven effort to create digital symbolic representation of music notation documents.

Welcome to the Music Encoding Initiative! 🙌

The Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) is an open-source effort to define a system for encoding musical documents in a machine-readable structure. MEI brings together specialists from various music research communities, including technologists, librarians, historians, and theorists in a common effort to define best practices for representing a broad range of musical documents and structures.

🔭 Repository Index

Here is a quick overview of our frequently accessed repositories and their contents:

  • music-encoding: The main repository that includes the source for the MEI schemata and guidelines.
  • schema: The repository that holds the official MEI Schema files.
  • guidelines: The repository that holds the MEI guidelines for the latest stable and development versions.
  • music-encoding.github.io: The repository for the MEI website at music-encoding.org.
  • sample-encodings: The repository that provides sample encodings and uses cases of MEI.
  • encoding-tools: The repository that hosts tools for modifying MEI files and conversion of MEI to/from other encoding formats.

📋 Documentation

A live version of the MEI Guidelines is available on the MEI Website in the ’Documentation‘ menu:

🫶 Community

We value your feedback and welcome any comments or suggestions you may have. To get in touch with us, please consider joining our Github discussions.

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  1. music-encoding music-encoding Public

    美 The Music Encoding Initiative schema and guidelines development repository

    XSLT 210 69

  2. schema schema Public

    A repository where the MEI schema are published

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  3. guidelines guidelines Public

    📜 The Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

    HTML 22 29

  4. sample-encodings sample-encodings Public

    A directory of Sample Encodings for MEI

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  5. encoding-tools encoding-tools Public

    Tools for working with or transforming MEI Encodings

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  6. music-encoding.github.io music-encoding.github.io Public

    The MEI website

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Repositories

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  • guidelines Public

    📜 The Music Encoding Initiative Guidelines

    music-encoding/guidelines’s past year of commit activity
    HTML 22 ECL-2.0 29 13 1 Updated Nov 22, 2024
  • schema Public

    A repository where the MEI schema are published

    music-encoding/schema’s past year of commit activity
    6 5 1 0 Updated Nov 22, 2024
  • music-encoding Public

    美 The Music Encoding Initiative schema and guidelines development repository

    music-encoding/music-encoding’s past year of commit activity
    XSLT 210 ECL-2.0 69 170 42 Updated Nov 22, 2024
  • musescore-doc Public

    Documentation for the MEI support in MuseScore

    music-encoding/musescore-doc’s past year of commit activity
    Ruby 0 CC-BY-SA-4.0 2 0 2 Updated Nov 18, 2024
  • music-encoding.github.io Public

    The MEI website

    music-encoding/music-encoding.github.io’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 18 ECL-2.0 38 11 (2 issues need help) 6 Updated Nov 18, 2024
  • docker-mei Public

    This repo offers an docker image containing all software needed for building the mei guidelines

    music-encoding/docker-mei’s past year of commit activity
    Dockerfile 0 MIT 5 1 3 Updated Nov 13, 2024
  • sample-encodings Public

    A directory of Sample Encodings for MEI

    music-encoding/sample-encodings’s past year of commit activity
    31 ECL-2.0 33 8 1 Updated Jun 10, 2024
  • encoding-tools Public

    Tools for working with or transforming MEI Encodings

    music-encoding/encoding-tools’s past year of commit activity
    XSLT 42 ECL-2.0 32 15 1 Updated Jun 5, 2024
  • sibmei Public

    Sibelius MEI Plugin

    music-encoding/sibmei’s past year of commit activity
    JavaScript 39 MIT 16 27 0 Updated Apr 13, 2024
  • oXygen-MEI-addon Public

    MEI oXygen Addon

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