MeRIT: An interactive annotation tool for mensural rhythms

Plaksin, Anna and Lewis, David. 2022. 'MeRIT: An interactive annotation tool for mensural rhythms'. In: 9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM2022). Prague, Czech Republic 28 July 2022. [Conference or Workshop Item]

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We introduce MeRIT, the Mensural Rhythm Interpretation Tool, a client-side JavaScript tool that interprets the rhythmic notation of pre-modern polyphonic music using rules derived from contemporary theory. The interpretation derived from the tool is written in standards-compliant MEI, including details of the rules being applied at each point and a fine-grained metrical analysis.

We discuss the importance of system modularity and different levels of evaluation and describe a user feedback system that we have implemented, supporting corrections, detailed introspection and evaluation and also pedagogical use, training musicians to read the notation. This user interaction is facilitated by a system architecture that provides an API encapsulation of the MEI interaction, giving annotations provided by the user and interpreter a common interface.

Item Type	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Additional Information	© 2022 Copyright held by the owner/author(s). Publication rights licensed to ACM. This is the accepted manuscript version of the paper. The final version is available online from the Association for Computing Machinery at: https://doi.org/10.1145/3543882.3543888 MeRIT was developed by the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project "Interpreting the Mensural Notation: An Expert System Based on the Theory of Johannes Tinctoris" (AH/P013910/1). It builds on the project "The Complete Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New Digital Edition" (AH/I003827/1).
Keywords	Applied computing, Sound and music computing
Departments, Centres and Research Units	Computing
Date Deposited	21 Dec 2022 14:52
Last Modified	22 Dec 2022 14:23