Traditional Modal Monodies Generative Grammar Encoding in the Music Encoding Initiative

Encoding written music with a textual format is a technology developed for exchanging and analyzing digital music scores. In the literature, many standards exist for this purpose, such as, MusicXML and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI). The Music Encoding Initiative is a standard developed for encoding music scores in XML. It supports the encoding of different types of notations, such as, Common Music Notation, Neumes Notation, etc]. It encodes many features and elements related to musical components such as the pitch name, the octave and the duration of notes. However, for the researchers in musicology, additional information are necessary to enrich the MEI and in order to provide more specific music analysis. In this paper, we target the modal monodies analysis. Thus, we propose to enrich the MEI by appending to its initial schema additional information extracted from the generative grammar of modal monodies]. The proposed solution consists of adding a custom module to the MEI containing new elements and attributes. In addition, a new semi-automated analysis component is proposed for the analysis of traditional Modal Monodies of the Middle East and the Mediterranean cultures