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, manual beams, a triplet, volta repeats, a music variable used twice per voice, melisma marks, lyrics with hyphens, extenders, skips and stanza labels, and an invisible bar line, which is read as layout and not encoded). 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, including its ignoreMelismata setting. 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 (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 text: five stanzas on three lyric lines, as in the edition (stanzas 1-3 under the first statement of the music, stanzas 4-5 under the second); 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 stanzas 3 and 5. As in LilyPond, a setting written before a syllable takes effect from the next syllable, so it governs the syllables 'nat' and 'us' (stanza 3) and 'vil' and 'suo' (stanza 5): each goes to the next note even inside a melisma. The MIDI check confirms the placement.
The edition repeats each statement of the music with volta repeat signs; the encoding gives the same repeat bar lines. The edition's MIDI file plays each statement once, and the MEI is compared with it without the repeats.
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.
Converted mechanically from the LilyPond source of Monique Rio's edition (St Cecilia Press, commit dcbcfbe) with tools/stcpress.py 1.1.0. No note, rest or syllable was added, removed or corrected by hand.