id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_45a6a5ihtbhj5dtwwhdai2kle4 Karen Desmond Next Steps for Measuring Polyphony: A Prototype Editor for Encoding Mensural Music 2020 4 .pdf application/pdf 1094 80 33 A Prototype Editor for Encoding Mensural Music This poster presents an NEH-funded project to develop a prototype editor for encoding mensural notation (PI: website that presents digitisations of polyphonic motets copied in late medieval manuscripts in mensural notation. An online mensural music editor will allow a variety of modern readers (students and experts, musicologists, music theorists, those interested in the history of music notation, the history of counterpoint, medieval palaeography or manuscript studies in general) to both access and contribute transcriptions of polyphonic music directly music encoding to encode large amounts of music data in mensural notation directly linked to digital images of allows users to notate music in its mensural form. open-source web-based editor designed to capture the shapes and the meaning of the mensural notation, following the encoding standards developed by the Music Encoding Initiative. ./cache/work_45a6a5ihtbhj5dtwwhdai2kle4.pdf ./txt/work_45a6a5ihtbhj5dtwwhdai2kle4.txt