This MEI file is a mechanical conversion of Monique Rio's edition (St Cecilia Press, https://stcpress.org), which is licensed CC BY 4.0 according to the publisher's statement and the edition's own score footer. Because the licence badge on the publisher's page links to CC BY-SA 4.0, the conversion is released under CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), which satisfies either reading. Attribution: edition by Monique Rio, St Cecilia Press; MEI conversion by Motetus (AEM Ventures SRL). Changes: converted from LilyPond to MEI 5.1; see the encodingDesc and revisionDesc.
https://stcpress.org/about (retrieved 2026-10-21): "Monique's transcriptions are done in Lilypond, and may be used with attribution. (CC By 4.0)"
Footer of the edition's PDF score: "© Monique Rio (CC BY 4.0)"
Footer markup of the edition's score.ly: "© Monique Rio (CC BY 4.0)"
The LilyPond source is read by a strict reader for the subset of LilyPond used by the edition (relative pitches, durations, manual beams, ties, editorial accidentals marked with the edition's \ficta command, time changes, music variables used twice per voice, melisma marks, bar lines, lyrics with hyphens, extenders and stanza labels). As in LilyPond, a time signature applies to the whole score, and LilyPond's default 4/4 applies when the edition sets none. Accidentals are written where LilyPond's default accidental rule prints them; every altered note also carries its sounding accidental (@accid.ges). Lyrics are attached to notes with LilyPond's \lyricsto rules. Only the first, untransposed \book of the score template is converted. Any construct outside the subset stops the conversion. No music was entered or corrected by hand.
All notes, rests and syllables come from the source edition's LilyPond file at the pinned commit, converted mechanically. Nothing was transcribed from the manuscript for this encoding.
Pitch, onset and duration of every note and the placement of every syllable were checked automatically against the edition's own MIDI file (checks/midi-compare.json).
Accidentals: written accidentals are encoded where LilyPond's default accidental rule prints them in the edition; sounding alterations are given in @accid.ges on every other altered note. Accidentals the edition marks with its \ficta command (printed above the note) are encoded as editorial accidentals (accid with func='edit', place='above').
Both voices carry the text: six stanzas on three lyric lines, as in the edition (stanzas 1-3 under the first statement of the music, stanzas 4-6 under the second); stanza numbers are encoded as verse labels. Lyrics, punctuation and spelling are copied from the edition.
The edition sets no time signature at the start, so LilyPond's default 4/4 applies; the edition prints it as the C sign, encoded as meter.sym='common'. The edition writes the change to 2/4 and back to 4/4 near the end of each statement in the upper voice only; LilyPond applies a time signature to the whole score and the edition prints it on both staves, so the encoding changes the metre for both staves at that point.
The edition writes the music once per voice as a music variable and uses it twice; the encoding follows the written-out sequence measure by measure. Where the edition writes two bar lines at the same point between the statements (':|:' and then ':..:'), LilyPond prints the second; it is encoded as a double repeat bar line (right='rptboth'), and the final ':|.' as right='rptend'. The edition's MIDI file plays the two statements once each, and the MEI is compared with it without the repeats.
The edition's key signature is given in LilyPond as d dorian (no accidentals); the MEI records only the resulting signature.
Beams are encoded where the edition beams explicitly (the edition switches automatic beaming off). Layout instructions of the edition (page size, staff size, system spacing, page breaks) and its ambitus signs at the start of each staff are not encoded.
Converted mechanically from the LilyPond source of Monique Rio's edition (St Cecilia Press, commit dcbcfbe) with tools/stcpress.py 1.2.0. No note, rest or syllable was added, removed or corrected by hand.