DIME – DME Mozarteum

Digital Interactive Mozart Edition (DIME)

PROJECT DESCRIPTION

The core project of the Digital Mozart Edition (DME) is the Digital Interactive Mozart Edition (DIME), which was developed by theStiftung Mozarteum Salzburg (ISM) in collaboration with The Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) in Los Altos/CA. DIME is conceived as an offspring of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA) which the Mozarteum Foundation began publishing in 1954 and which has been available as NMA Online since 2006. DIME is based on the NMA and respects the integrity of scholarship and academic achievement of generations of scholars. As an online project, DIME is not identical to the NMA, neither in its content nor its appearance.

DIME is a fully digital edition. The musical texts are encoded in the open, XML-based format of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), which facilitates the documentation of editorial decisions and enables the continuous update of the edition. A visualization program transfers the machine-readable XML code to regular music notation. All variants and editorial interventions can be made visible directly in the music. The data format used in DIME allows for a dynamic display of the music adapted to the needs of the user, including the production of individual parts. Not only can the layout-independent coding be displayed on the screen, it is also available for external reuse in other programs (CC BY SA NC 4.0 license).

DIME relies on two strands of editions:

‘Reference Text’: This is a digitally re-mastered representation of the musical text of the NMA, updated and enriched for online display. The ‘Reference Text’ is based on a complete encoding of the NMA provided by PHI. It is synchronized with the NMA Online for reference.
‘Alternative Texts’: These are new editions of selected works chosen according to specific criteria. The ‘Alternative Texts’ are typically source editions based on a single source and are meant as a complement to the NMA ‘Reference Text’.

Part of DIME is the Web Interface MoVi – The Digital Mozart Score Viewer, which is built around the Verovio music engraving library developed by the Swiss RISM office. It offers a variety of features and advanced functionalities for navigation and customized display of the music (for details see the User Manual in MoVi).

References:

The Digital Mozart Edition as a Digital Music Edition (Poster presented at the 2017 Music Encoding Conference, Tours, France)
A Music Edition for the Readership of the 21st Century: The Digital Interactive Mozart Edition (DIME) (Poster presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Musicological Society 2019, Boston/MA, USA)
The Digital Interactive Mozart Edition (DIME): A 12-minute Video Introduction (Joint Meeting of the American Bach Society and the Mozart Society of America, Stanford University, 16 February 2020, Stanford/CA, USA)

Last update: February 2020

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

DIME is being developed at the International Mozarteum Foundation Salzburg (ISM) in cooperation with the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), Los Altos, California, as is outlined in the Memorandum of Understanding of 2001.

DIME is the critical edition of the musical works of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart in accordance with current philological and editorial standards; it will potentially cover his entire compositional output.

DIME is not identical to the New Mozart Edition (NMA), but the two are closely linked. It is based on the NMA and respects the integrity of scholarship and academic achievement of generations of scholars. In addition to the musical text presented in the NMA, DIME strives to open up new areas of Mozart's oeuvre through the edition of sources and alternate versions making them accessible to a variety of users and readers. DIME plans to take advantage of the flexibility of the digital format, including in particular the possibility of keeping the edition up to date according to the latest scholarly findings.

DIME is a digital edition. All of the music and text are encoded in the mark-up language XML. The code follows the standards of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) and the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI). Variants, corrections and editorial additions are recorded and documented in the code. Within the edition, music and critical documentation are one unit. The encoding is the edition.

The code is visualized through a corresponding program that will allow the display of the music, variant readings, and editorial additions. In this form, it is freely accessible to the user on the website of the ISM. In addition, the Edition (the musical text with critical documentation) is provided to the user for download (in XML, possibly as a PDF). The use of the DME Music Edition in all of its forms is subject to the CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

The language of the edition is English; important accompanying texts may also be available in German or in other languages.

Given the nature of the digital edition, in which the visual output in the form of a traditional score is an application of the digital code, the Editorial Guidelines have to be, at least in part, also guidelines for the encoding. As far as the visual rendering of the edition is concerned, these guidelines take into account the textual representations, visualizations and display options provided by the ISM. The Editorial Guidelines are provided in the XML file header (<editorialDecl>) as a link. They are subject to versioning. The guidelines have recourse to version 3.0.0 of MEI and the corresponding Guidelines of the Music Encoding Initiative. They selectively establish conventions and preferences for the DME Music Edition without replacing the MEI-Guidelines in their entirety. If a new version of MEI is published by the Music Encoding Initiative, the coding guidelines are checked and, if necessary, adapted.

2. Organizational Realization

3. Layout and Configuration of DIME

3.1. Structuring of the Edition
3.2. Work Unit
3.3. Editorial Unit
3.4. Headings
3.5. Style conventions for textual documents

4. Philological Principles

5. Musical Text and Encoding

5.1. Basics
5.2. General specifications
- 5.2.1. Measure count
- 5.2.2. XML:IDs
- 5.2.3. Score parameter (general encoding principles)
  - a. Score layout
  - b. Staff size
  - c. Labeling of parts
  - d. Bars and bar lines
  - e. Key and meter
  - f. Clefs
  - g. Transposing instruments
  - h. Staves and voices
  - i. Segmentation
- 5.2.4. Musical Notation (general encoding principles)
  - a. Notes and rests
  - b. Accidentals
  - c. Articulation
  - d. Slurs, ties
  - e. Ornaments, fermatas
  - f. Dynamics, performance markings
  - g. Thorough bass
  - h. Shorthand notation and copy marks
- 5.2.5. Text elements (general encoding principles)
  - a. Headings, tempo markings, movement designations, cues
  - b. Vocal text
5.3. 'Edited text'
- 5.3.1. Definition
- 5.3.2. Score parameter and design
  - a. Score order
  - b. Staff size
  - c. Names of instruments and vocal parts
  - d. Bar lines
  - e. Clefs and transposing instruments
  - f. Keys and accidentals
  - g. Time signatures
  - h. Part writing
  - i. Peculiarities in music for keyboard and harp
  - k. Parts not explicitly notated
- 5.3.3. Musical notation
  - a. Music signs
  - b. Ornaments
  - c. Arpeggios
  - d. Vocal appoggiaturas
  - e. Articulation
  - f. Dynamics and performance markings
  - g. Thorough bass
- 5.3.4. Vocal texts
  - - a. Format
    - b. Text treatment in the edition
  - 5.3.5. Headings, movement designations
  - 5.3.6. Principles of editing
    - A. Corrections
      - a. Error
      - b. Unclear readings
      - c. Doubtful readings
      - d. Gaps, loss of text
    - B. Adjustments
      - a. Adjustments of conflicting findings
      - b. Adjustments by analogy
    - C. Free additions
    - D. Normalizations
    - E. Variant readings
5.4. Reference Text
- 5.4.1. Basics
- 5.4.2. Normalizations
- 5.4.3. Editorial interventions
- 5.4.4. Editions of the NMA
- 5.4.5. Regulations
- 5.4.6. Misprints
- 5.4.7. Text documents
5.5. 'Transcript'
- 5.5.1. Definition
- 5.5.2. Transcription depth
- 5.5.3. Rules
- 5.5.4. Individual features
- 5.5.5. Text components
- 5.5.6. Scribal hands
- 5.5.7. Stages of the writing process, text genesis
5.6. 'Interpreted text'
- 5.6.1. Definition
- 5.6.2. Regulations in detail
- 5.6.3. Documentation

6. Critical Documentation

6.1. Content
6.2. Source Description
6.3. Source Evaluation
6.4. Documentation and Code
6.5. Annotations
6.6. Style regulations for the Critical Documentation

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Project Team DME::Music
Edited within the Digital Mozart Edition (DME) by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg

Project Director DME	Ulrich Leisinger
Managing Editor	Norbert Dubowy
IT-Development	Felix Gründer, Franz Kelnreiter
Editors	Mirijam Beier (till 30 September 2021), Iacopo Cividini, Till Reininghaus (till 31 July 2021), Oleksii Sapov

Funder
Packard Humanities Institute (PHI), Los Altos (California/USA)
Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum (ISM), Salzburg

Contact
dme@mozarteum.at

How to quote
Digital Interactive Mozart Edition, published by the Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum, Salzburg (https://dme.mozarteum.at/movi/en, [date of access]).

The project is licensed under a Creative Commons CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 International License.

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