Meico

Abstract

MEI, the established representation format for digital music editions, barely finds consideration in other music-related communities. Reasons are the format's complexity and ambiguity that make processing expensive and laborious. On the other hand, digital music editions are an invaluable source of symbolic music data and further accompanying information far beyond the typical metadata found in other formats. With meico, we provide a novel tool that makes access, processing and use of MEI encoded music more convenient and appealing for other application scenarios. Meico is a converter framework that translates MEI data to a series of formats relevant to many other applications. With ScoreTube we demonstrate this in an audio-to-score alignment scenario.