## Text Encoding Initiative

### The XML Version of the TEI Guidelines

# <sound>

`<sound>` | describes a sound effect or musical sequence specified within a screen play or radio script.

Attributes

(In addition to global attributes and those inherited from stageDirection)

`type` | categorizes the sound in some respect, e.g. as music, special effect, etc.
| Datatype: CDATA
| Values: any string of characters
| Default: #IMPLIED

`discrete` | indicates whether the sound overlaps the surrounding speeches or interrupts them.
| Datatype: ( y | n | u )

Legal values are:

y | the sound is heard between the surrounding speeches
n | the sound overlaps the surrounding speeches
u | unknown or inapplicable

| Default: u

Example

    <sp>
       <speaker>Benjy</speaker>
       <p>Now to business.</p>
    </sp>
    <sp>
       <speaker>Ford and Zaphod</speaker>
       <p>To business.</p>
    </sp>
    <sound discrete="y">Glasses clink.</sound>
    <sp>
       <speaker>Benjy</speaker>
       <p>I beg your pardon?</p>
    </sp>
    <sp>
       <speaker>Ford</speaker>
       <p>I'm sorry, I thought you were
      proposing a toast.</p>
    </sp>

Note

A specialized form of stage direction.

Module Declared in file teidram2; Base tag set for performance texts: enabled by TEI.drama
Class stageDirection
Data Description Contains character data and phrase level elements.
May contain #PCDATA abbr add addSpan address alt altGrp anchor app bibl biblFull biblStruct c caesura camera caption castList cb certainty cit cl corr damage date dateRange dateStruct del delSpan distinct emph expan fLib figure foreign formula fs fsLib fvLib fw gap geogName gloss handShift hi index interp interpGrp join joinGrp label lang lb link linkGrp list listBibl m measure mentioned milestone move name note num oRef oVar orgName orig pRef pVar pb persName phr placeName ptr q quote ref reg respons restore rs s seg sic soCalled sound space span spanGrp stage supplied table tech term text time timeRange timeStruct timeline title unclear view w witDetail xptr xref
May occur within ab add admin argument body camera caption case castList cell colloc corr country damage def descrip dictScrap div div0 div1 div2 div3 div4 div5 div6 div7 docEdition emph entryFree epigraph epilogue etym figDesc foreign form gen gram gramGrp head hi hyph imprimatur item itype l lang lbl lem meeting metDecl mood note number orth otherForm p per performance pos prologue pron q quote rdg ref region rendition seg set sic sound stage stress subc supplied syll tagUsage tech title titlePart tns tr trans unclear usg view wit witDetail witness writing xr xref
Declaration

    <!ELEMENT sound %om.RO; %paraContent;>
    <!ATTLIST sound
          %a.global;
          type CDATA #IMPLIED
          discrete ( y | n | u ) "u">

See further 10.3.1 Technical Information; 10.3 Other Types of Performance Text

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