The Plaine & Easie Code is a music notation encoding system designed for the capture of melodic incipits: Short fragments of music notation that help to identify the musical work.
Plaine & Easie version 1 is the currently accepted version of the specification.
Plaine & Easie version 2 specification is under preparation. It is due to contain significant changes, and should not be used until it is finalized.
Encoding guidelines for Plaine & Easie are also in preparation.
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