arXiv:2507.15991cs.SDcs.DB2025-07

将3500份中世纪音乐XML文件从旧格式转为现代标准,提升可读性与兼容性。

A new XML conversion process for mensural music encoding : CMME\_to\_MEI (via Verovio)

  • 基于Verovio开发转换工具,实现CMME到MEI的自动转换
  • 支持向MEI CMN格式转换,可在MuseScore等软件中正常显示
  • 为中世纪音乐研究者提供高效编辑与共享新路径

图尔大学文艺复兴高级研究中心的Ricercar实验室,在法国数字基础设施Biblissima支持下,公开发布了约3500个15世纪音乐的XML文件。这些文件由德国音乐学家Clemens Goldberg自2010年起编码,涵盖杜费、比尼奥瓦斯、奥克格姆等作曲家的世俗作品,采用专为记谱法设计的CMME格式。由于原编辑工具多年未更新,本文介绍一套新转换工具,将CMME文件转为更现代的MEI标准。2024年9月在巴黎康多塞校区举行的研讨会上,汇聚了记谱法、XML和编程专家。转换器直接集成于开源渲染库Verovio,实现从CMME到梅尼尔记谱法(MEI)的转换,并进一步支持转换为MEI CMN格式,使文件可在MuseScore等排版软件中最小损失地加载。该转换方案使原有CMME文件获得新生,且在尚无替代品的情况下,为记谱法编码提供了新工作流。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

The Ricercar Lab - the musicological research team at the Center for advanced Studies in the Renaissance at the University of Tours - has decided to make available in open access, thanks to the support of the French digital infrastructure Biblissima, a large corpus of about 3500 XML files of 15th-c. music. This corpus was produced by the German musicologist Clemens Goldberg who encoded since 2010 onwards the musical content of 34 major 15th-c. music manuscripts and other complementary files, in order to offer on his foundation's website PDF files of complete collections of works by Du Fay, Binchois, Okeghem, Busnoys and most of their major contemporaries, focusing on their secular output. This corpus was encoded in an XML format named CMME (Computerized Mensural Music Editing), specifically conceived for mensural music by Theodor Dumitrescu in the 2000s, together with editorial and publication tools which have not been updated since then. This article focuses on the development of a set of conversion tools for these CMME files to meet more up-to-date standards of music encoding, namely MEI. A workshop was organised in September 2024 at the Campus Condorcet in Paris, gathering experts with a wide range of knowledge on mensural music notation, XML formats and programming. A converter was developped directly in the open-source rendering library Verovio, allowing the conversion from CMME to MEI mensural. A conversion to MEI CMN was implemented afterwards, enabling to load these files in common engraving softwares such as MuseScore with minimal loss of information. With the availability of a direct import of CMME-XML into Verovio, the corpus of existing CMME files gets a new life. Furthermore, since the stand-alone CMME editor still works fine and no alternative is available yet for native MEI, the converter offers a new pipeline for encoding and editing mensural music.

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