Stella splendens

The manuscript the edition cites

• Montserrat, Biblioteca de l'Abadia, MS 1 (Llibre Vermell)

  Folios

  22v–23 (stated by the edition's metadata.yaml ('Llibre Vermell', 'No. 2, fol(s)/pages 22v-23'))

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 (396) and syllable (417) matches the edition’s own MIDI file in pitch, onset and duration.

Engraving

Verovio 6.3.0-425dd7b, 2 pages

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.
• The upper voice carries the refrain and seven stanzas on four lyric lines, laid out as in the edition, with skips where a line is silent; stanza numbers are encoded as verse labels. The lower voice is untexted, as in the edition. Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition.
• The edition sets LilyPond's ignoreMelismata in stanza 6. As in LilyPond, a setting written before a syllable takes effect from the next syllable, so it governs the syllables 'gre' and 'gan': each goes to the next note even inside a melisma. The MIDI check confirms the placement.
• The edition writes refrain and verse once each as music variables and uses them again; the encoding follows the written-out sequence measure by measure.
• Where the edition writes two bar lines at the same point (':|.' and then ':..:'), LilyPond prints the second; it is encoded as a double repeat bar line (right='rptboth'). The edition's MIDI file plays the music once through, and the MEI is compared with it without the repeats.
• The edition's key signature is given in LilyPond as d dorian (no accidentals); the MEI records only the resulting signature.
• 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, page breaks) 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, tenor) 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 melisma marks (\melisma ... \melismaEnd) only steer the lyric placement; they are not encoded as such.
• The edition's MIDI tempo (quarter note = 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.