<composer>

The <composer> element identifies the composer or attribution of the piece.

Parent

<header>

Content

Either plain text or up to three <text> children, one per alignment, the same content model <annotation> uses. align is required on each and accepts left, center, or right, and each alignment may appear at most once.

Plain text renders centered. That differs from <annotation>, where plain text is left-aligned, because a credit sits under the title rather than in the body of the score.

The text prints exactly as written. Nothing is prefixed or appended, so a score reading ผู้ประพันธ์ : พระประดิษฐไพเราะ is one where the arranger typed that whole string. A tool reading this as metadata takes the same text, concatenating the <text> children left to right when there are several.

Example

<header>
  <composer>Traditional</composer>
</header>

<!-- Right-aligned, with the label the arranger wants -->
<header>
  <composer>
    <text align="right">ผู้ประพันธ์ : พระประดิษฐไพเราะ</text>
  </composer>
</header>

Notes

• Optional. Omit it if the composer is unknown or not applicable, rather than filling it with a placeholder.
• Use one <composer> element per composer when a piece has several.
• Renders in the title band. See The title band.

Conformance

• Where a <composer> has <text> children, they are its content and any sibling text is ignored. Validators should warn when the ignored text is not merely whitespace.
• At most one <text> child per align value.