A collection of MEI metadata describing the works of selected composers. The data were created 2010–2020 by the Danish Centre for Music Editing at the Royal Danish Library and used for the following printed and digital catalogues of works:
Catalogue of Carl Nielsen's Works (CNW), https://www.kb.dk/dcm/cnw.html
Johann Adolph Scheibe. A Catalogue of his Works (SchW), https://www.kb.dk/dcm/schw.html
Niels W. Gade. Thematic-Bibliographic Catalogue of his Works (NWGW), https://www.kb.dk/dcm/nwgw.html
J.P.E. Hartmann. Thematic-Bibliographic Catalogue of his Works (HartW), https://www.kb.dk/dcm/hartw.html
The collection utilizes the the Music Encoding Initiative's (MEI) XML schema, which allows for comprehensive musical and bibliographic metadata in the XML files' header section. Also included in the collection are PNG graphic files representing incipits, i.e., the first bars of music for each piece.
 
The following file structure is found in the zip file:
.
├── cnw
│   ├── data-cnw
        └── cnw0001.xml
            cnw0002.xml
            ...
│   └── incipits
│       ├── hires
            └── cnw_001_1_1.png
                cnw_001_1_2.png
                ...
│       └── lowres
            └── cnw_001_1_1.png
                cnw_001_1_2.png
                ...
├── ...
└── schw
    ├── data-schw
        └── 1aa8487e-471b-415a-822b-d87fd2d2e490.xml
            1e05ab28-b99f-4511-ba87-fabb9dddeaaf.xml
            ...
    └── incipits
        ├── hires
            └── schw_001_1_1.png
                schw_001_1_2.png
                ...
│       └── lowres
            └── schw_001_1_1.png
                schw_001_1_2.png
                ...
readme.txt
 
The "data-XXXX"-folders contain the MEI XML files, while the incipits/hires and incipits/lowres folders hold the incipit graphics in low and high resolution, respectively.