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Edition

Edi beo thu hevene quene

Anonymous · 2 voices · song (two voices, Middle English, in honour of the Virgin) · Middle English

Edited by

Monique Rio

St Cecilia Press, Aug-14-2016

Licences

Edition: CC BY 4.0

MEI file: CC BY-SA 4.0

When reusing, credit: edition by Monique Rio, St Cecilia Press (CC BY 4.0); MEI conversion by Motetus (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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Converted from the LilyPond source at commit dcbcfbe

Manuscript

GB-Occc Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 59, f. 113v

No IIIF manifest was found for this manuscript, and no library images are linked, so the pages are not shown here.

Score

1 page, engraved by Verovio 6.3.0 from the MEI file. Line and page breaks are Verovio’s, not the edition’s.

page 1 of 1 of the engraved score

The manuscript the edition cites

  • Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 59

    Folios
    113v (stated by the edition's metadata.yaml ('GB-Occ MS 59', 'No. 2, fol(s)/pages 113v'))
    DIAMM
    source record · composition record

Checks

Schema
Valid MEI 5.1 with each of: lxml (libxml2) RelaxNG (mei-CMN); lxml (libxml2) RelaxNG (mei-all); Jing 20241231 (mei-CMN); Jing 20241231 (mei-all); SchXslt 1.10.1 on Saxon-HE 12.5 (mei-CMN); SchXslt 1.10.1 on Saxon-HE 12.5 (mei-all)
Against the edition
Every note (153) and syllable (332) matches the edition’s own MIDI file in pitch, onset and duration.
Engraving
Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b, 1 page

How the encoding was made

  • All notes, rests and syllables come from the source edition's LilyPond file at the pinned commit, converted mechanically. Nothing was transcribed from the manuscript for this encoding.
  • Pitch, onset and duration of every note and the placement of every syllable were checked automatically against the edition's own MIDI file (checks/midi-compare.json).
  • Accidentals: written accidentals are encoded where LilyPond's default accidental rule prints them in the edition; sounding alterations are given in @accid.ges on every other altered note.
  • Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition, including the lone '-' syllable in verse 3 ('Leve - di'), which the edition engraves as its own syllable. Stanza numbers are encoded as verse labels.
  • Beams are encoded where the edition beams explicitly (the edition switches automatic beaming off). Layout instructions of the edition (page size, staff size, system spacing) and its ambitus signs at the start of each staff are not encoded.

Where the encoding differs from the edition

  • Ambitus signs printed at the start of each staff in the edition (produced by its layout file) are not encoded.
  • System and page breaks follow Verovio's layout, not the edition's.
  • Voice names (cantus, altus) exist only as LilyPond context names; they are recorded here but not encoded as staff labels, as the edition does not print them.
  • The edition's MIDI tempo (quarter = 140) is not encoded.
  • Verovio may draw lyric hyphens and extender lines in other places than LilyPond, which drops hyphens where space is short.

Licences in full

This MEI file is a mechanical conversion of Monique Rio's edition (St Cecilia Press, https://stcpress.org), which is licensed CC BY 4.0 according to the publisher's statement and the edition's own score footer. Because the licence badge on the publisher's page links to CC BY-SA 4.0, the conversion is released under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), which satisfies either reading. Attribution: edition by Monique Rio, St Cecilia Press; MEI conversion by Motetus (AEM Ventures SRL). Changes: converted from LilyPond to MEI 5.1; see the encodingDesc and revisionDesc.

Why the edition is taken to be CC BY 4.0
  • https://stcpress.org/about: "Monique's transcriptions are done in Lilypond, and may be used with attribution. (CC By 4.0)"
  • Footer of the edition's PDF score: "© Monique Rio (CC BY 4.0)"
  • Footer markup of the edition's score.ly: "© Monique Rio (CC BY 4.0)"

On the about page the badge next to this sentence links to the CC BY-SA 4.0 deed (the two badges on the page appear swapped). The GitHub repository has no LICENSE file.