How to Create Music Incipits in Muscat using Plaine & Easie Code

Описание: This video is aimed toward RISM's contributors who use the cataloging program Muscat.

This video will demonstrate how to make a music incipit (the first few bars of a piece) using Plaine & Easie Code for a RISM record. It covers:
Importance of music incipits (0:00)
First example: A single instrumental line (1:57)
Second example: A song with voice and piano (9:11)
Third example: A string quartet with multiple movements (11:49)
Other aspects: mensural notation, transposing instruments, other notational elements (12:42)
Encoding Plaine & Easie outside of Muscat (13:22)

Presenters:
Jennifer Ward, RISM Editorial Center, Frankfurt, Germany, https://rism.info/
Christina Linklater, US RISM Office, Harvard University, USA, https://library.harvard.edu/libraries...


Plaine & Easie Code from the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML):
https://www.iaml.info/plaine-easie-code

The MARC21 standard for the field Music Incipit (031):
https://www.loc.gov/marc/bibliographi...

Verovio Plaine & Easie Editor:
https://www.verovio.org/pae-editor.html

Tutorial on using the incipit search in the free RISM Online Catalog (https://opac.rism.info/ ) :
   • The Music Incipit Search in the RISM Catalog  

Data dump of all RISM records (including the RISM incipits):
https://opac.rism.info/main-menu-/kac...

Muscat: https://rism.info/community/muscat.html

Examples used:
Example 1:
The first movement of Bach's second cello suite (BWV 1008), D-B Mus.ms. Bach P 269 (2).
https://opac.rism.info/search?id=4670...
Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - PK http://resolver.staatsbibliothek-berl...
Music incipit:
8,{DF}4A+6{AFED}/{xCEGA}4B+6{BAGF}/

Example 2:
"Vanne felice rio" by Louise Reichardt, D-Mbs 4 Mus.pr. 354 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001...
Music incipit:
(pf) 8''F4'''F8D{''BF'''D''F}/E4'''E6{DC}8{''BA'''C''E}/D4F8D
(CORRECTION: In the video, the first note of the code should be an F, not a D.)
(V) 4''D8C'B4''C'A/2BF/

Example 3:
String quartet by Johann André, US-CAe Mus 614.5.348
https://opac.rism.info/search?id=1001...
1.1.1: 4.,,D8D{FA,CD}/4,,DFA,D/4.,,D8D{GB,xDE}/4,,DGB,E
1.2.1: 2.''A4Ft{q6Eq6F}/2.''A4Ft{q6Eq6F}/4''AFD'A/q6A4GF2-
1.3.1: 2-8-{'DGB}/{8.''E6D}4.D{6ED}{C'BAG}/4G8F--{DFA}/{8''D6C}-
1.4.1: 4,AAA/AAA
1.4.2: =1/4--''A/{8xGABA'''D''B}/2A{8FA}/{AxGnGFGE}/2F4D
1.5.1: {8''FF}{6GFED}/4EA/{8DD}{6EDCD}/{CDxDE}8'A



Quick Plaine & Easie Cheat Sheet:
Pitches: A, B, C, D, E, F, G
Duration: 1-9
Rests: -
Octaves: , ,, ' ''
Bar lines: /
Beaming: { }
Ties: +
Accidentals: x, b, n

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