For example, a collection of songs might be regarded as a single item in some circumstances, or as a number of distinct items in others.

The distinction is not always entirely obvious. MEI texts may be regarded either as unitary that is, forming an organic whole, or as composite that is, consisting of several components which are in some important sense independent of each other. Inclusion of MEI encodings (partial or complete) inside Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) documents is covered in the TEI Guidelines at and by the TEI Music Special Interest Group at. Stand-alone headers are more fully described in chapter

music notation markup without metadata, typically intended to be embedded within another kind of markup, such as TEIįurther information regarding the organization and encoding of music corpora is given in chapter.

document that contain only metadata, known as an independent or stand-alone header.

collection of related MEI-encoded texts, each with its own metadata, known as a corpus.

Other variations on this basic form are also available for the representation of a: MeiHead element, formally declared in the MEI.header module, is described in chapter

MeiHead element, and the musical text itself, represented by a Mei element, which in turn contains metadata, represented by an Contains a single musical text of any kind, whether unitary or composite, for example,Īn etude, opera, song cycle, symphony, or anthology of piano solos.

Textual elements