Contact: Goals of MEI
MEI strives to be a semantically rich model for music notation is that:
- accommodates the encoding of common Western music, but is not limited to common music notation;
- is designed by the scholarly community for scholarly uses, but does not exclude other uses;
- provides for the common functions of traditional facsimile, critical, and performance editions;
- has a modular structure that permits use dependent on the goals of scholars;
- is based on open standards and is platform-independent;
- employs XML technologies; and
- permits the development of comprehensive and permanent international archives of notated music as a basis for editions, analysis, performances, and other forms of research
