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), developed by the International Mozarteum Foundation (ISM) in Salzburg in collaboration with the Packard Humanities Institute (PHI) in Los Altos/CA. DIME is designed as an offshoot of the Neue Mozart-Ausgabe (NMA), which the Mozarteum Foundation has published since 1954 and which has been available as NMA Online since 2006. DIME is based on the NMA and respects the integrity of scholarship and the academic achievements of generations of scholars. As an online project, DIME is not identical to the NMA, either in content or appearance.

DIME is a fully digital edition. The score texts are encoded in the open, XML-based format of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), which facilitates documentation of editorial decisions and allows for continuous updating of the edition. A visualization program translates the machine-readable XML code into regular musical notation. All variants and editorial interventions can be made visible directly in the music. The data format used in DIME allows a dynamic representation of the music adapted to the user’s needs, including the production of individual parts. The layout-independent encoding can not only be displayed on the screen, but 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 revised representation of the NMA’s score text, 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 purposes.
‘Alternative Texts’: these are new editions of selected works chosen according to specific criteria. ‘Alternative Texts’ are usually source editions based on a single source and intended as a supplement to the NMA ‘Reference Text’.

Part of DIME is the web interface MoVi – The Digital Mozart Score Viewer, which is built on the Verovio music engraving library developed by the Swiss RISM office. It offers a variety of features and advanced functions for navigation and individual display of the scores (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 2019 American Musicological Society Annual Meeting, 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: June 2023

EDITORIAL GUIDELINES

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

DIME is the critical edition of Wolfgang Amadé Mozart's musical works according to current philological and editorial standards; it will potentially include 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 the 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 by editing sources and alternative versions, making them accessible to a wide range of users and readers. DIME plans to take advantage of the flexibility of the digital format, including in particular the ability to keep the edition updated according to the latest scholarly findings.

DIME is a digital edition. All music and text are encoded in the XML markup language. 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 form a single unit. The encoding is the edition.

The code is visualized by a corresponding program that allows the display of the music, the readings, and the editorial additions. In this form, it is freely accessible to the user on the ISM website. In addition, the edition (the musical text with critical documentation) is also available to the user for download (in XML, possibly as a PDF). The use of the DME Music Edition in all 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 other languages.

Given the nature of the digital edition, where the visual output in the form of a traditional score is an application of the digital code, the edition guidelines must also be, at least in part, guidelines for encoding. As for the visual rendering of the edition, these guidelines take into account the textual representations, visualizations, and display options provided by the ISM. The editorial guidelines are provided as a link in the XML file header (<editorialDecl>). They are subject to versioning. The guidelines draw on version 3.0.0 of the 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 the MEI is published by the Music Encoding Initiative, the encoding guidelines will be reviewed and adjusted as necessary.

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 International Mozarteum Foundation, Salzburg

Director	Ulrich Leisinger
Teamleader	Iacopo Cividini
Full Stack Development	David Herzog
IT and Software-Development	Franz Kelnreiter
Edition, XML Technologies	Oleksii Sapov
Music Edition	Roland Mair-Gruber
Former Employees	Anna Bernroider (2023 – 2024), Felix Gründer (2016 – 2023), Mirijam Beier (2018 – 2021), Till Reininghaus (2008 – 2020)

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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