Mei‑friend. A viewer and last-mile editor for MEI score encodings

Abstract

Mei‑friend, a free and open-source package for the Atom text editor, enables convenient and fast rendering of music encoded in the format of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) including some important navigation and display options. Furthermore, it provides various functionalities for graphical editing of MEI code using rendered music notation. Mei‑friend is primarily aimed at musicologists, librarians, musicians and music enthusiasts. Users are required to have a moderate technical expertise only owing to straightforward installation and intuitive usage of the tool.

Keywords

• digital music edition
• music encoding initiative
• code editing
• musical notation rendering