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.
https://stcpress.org/about (retrieved 2026-10-21): "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)"
The LilyPond source is read by a strict reader for the subset of LilyPond used by the edition (relative pitches, durations, bar checks, ligature brackets, editorial accidentals marked with the edition's \ficta command, triplets, melisma marks, volta repeats, music and lyric variables, lyrics with hyphens, extenders, skips, stanza labels and underscores joining words on one note). Accidentals are written where LilyPond's default accidental rule prints them; every altered note also carries its sounding accidental (@accid.ges). Lyrics are attached to notes with LilyPond's \lyricsto rules. Only the first, untransposed \book of the score template is converted. Any construct outside the subset stops the conversion. No music was entered or corrected by hand.
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 at written pitch (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. Accidentals the edition marks with its \ficta command (printed above the note) are encoded as editorial accidentals (accid with func='edit', place='above').
Ligature brackets of the edition (\[ ... \]) are encoded as bracketSpan with func='ligature'.
The edition writes the whole ballata twice (music variables used twice, each with its own volta repeat) to carry four lyric lines per voice; the encoding follows it measure by measure. Each voice has two lyric lines per pass, as in the edition, with the stanza numbers it prints ('1. 5.', '4.', '2.', '3.') as verse labels. Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition; where the edition joins two words on one note with an underscore, the encoding has a space, as LilyPond prints it.
Layout instructions of the edition (page size, staff size, system spacing, line breaks) and its ambitus signs at the start of each staff are not encoded.
Converted mechanically from the LilyPond source of Monique Rio's edition (St Cecilia Press, commit dcbcfbe) with tools/stcpress.py 1.0.0. No note, rest or syllable was added, removed or corrected by hand.