Co-chair Meeting Minutes: September 24, 2019

Daniel Spreadbury was unable to attend this meeting, but Adrian Holovaty and Michael Good discussed several issues in his absence.

Octave shifts in MNX-Common

Adrian has updated pull request 158 to clarify the language in response to earlier comments. We plan to merge after co-chair review.

Slurs in MNX-Common

Adrian has created pull request 159 to add slurs to the MNX-Common spec and the MNX-Common By Example page. We discussed several issues regarding this pull request which will be added as review comments.

MusicXML 3.2 update

Michael reported that the idea for a <listen> element for score following and machine listening applications was supported by Antescofo as well as MakeMusic developers. With this expression of cross-application interest, Michael will write this up as an issue for MusicXML 3.2. Although larger in scope than most MusicXML 3.2 issues, it is something that seems to fit into the existing MusicXML 3.1 design, rather than relying on the new features in MNX-Common.

In reviewing the MusicXML 3.2 issue list, we have added an MNX label to several issues that we plan to defer to MNX-Common. We will now plan to close these issues, after making sure the issue is either addressed in the current MNX-Common spec or in an MNX issue. We will add a link to the relevant MNX location in a comment while closing each issue.

Adrian had a question about how to represent drum tablature in MusicXML which he will enter as a new MusicXML issue.

Next meeting

The next meeting of the co-chairs is scheduled for October 8, 2019.