IEEE 1599

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Alphabetic list of elements (v1.0)

IEEE 1599 Layers

This section describes each of the layers of IEEE 1599. Every element and attribute is described hierarchically order.

Here follow the entities commonly employed in IEEE 1599.

<!ENTITY % svg
PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD SVG 1.1//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/Graphics/SVG/1.1/DTD/svg11.dtd">
%svg;

<!ENTITY % ChannelRequired "#REQUIRED">
<!ENTITY % mididtd
PUBLIC "-//MIDI Manufacturers Association//DTD MIDIEvents 1.0//EN"
"http://www.midi.org/dtds/MIDIEvents10.dtd" >
%mididtd;

<!ENTITY % spine_ref
"event_ref IDREF #REQUIRED">

<!ENTITY % spine_start_end_ref
"start_event_ref IDREF #REQUIRED
end_event_ref IDREF #REQUIRED">

Purpose and the meaning of the entities is explained further below in the context of attributes and values..

Entities

spine_ref, standing for a required reference to IDs specified in spine sub-layer.
spine_start_end_ref, standing for two required references to IDs specified in the spine sub-layer. Usually this entity is used when a sign has a temporal or spatial development and it requires a reference both to a start and to an end event.
accidental, listing all the supported accidentals. Please note that microtonal music is supported too, thanks to the accidentals that lower/raise the pitch by one or many quarter tones.
formats, listing all the supported file formats and encoding formats in a way that resembles MIME types.

<!ELEMENT ieee1599 (general, logic, structural?, notational?, performance?, audio?)>

<!ATTLIST ieee1599
version CDATA #REQUIRED
creator CDATA #IMPLIED>

Laboratorio di Informatica Musicale
Dipartimento di Informatica Università degli Studi di Milano Via G. Celoria, 18 - 20133 Milano, ITALY	Goffredo Haus, PAR1599 chair Phone: +39 02 50316 222 E-mail: goffredo.haus@unimi.it		Luca A. Ludovico, PAR1599 vice-chair Phone: +39 02 50316 382 E-mail: luca.ludovico@unimi.it		Laboratory Phone: +39 02 50316 382 E-mail: lim@di.unimi.it