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In order to locate text paraphrase in Vivaldi's opera librettos, as a clue to the composer's reuse of his own arias in operas for which the music is lost, and in order to reconstruct a pattern of interdependency among a group of related medieval music treatises, the authors created their own relational databases using the Savvy-PC programming language. The crucial, unique feature of this language is a COMPARE command that transcends the limitations of Key Word in Context searches. This system puts the scholar in control of programming functions on all DOS microcomputers, and outputs universally transferrable ASCII data files.
John Hill (Ph.D., Musicology, Harvard University) is professor of Music at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Life and Works of Francesco Maria Veracini (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979), Vivaldi's Ottone in villa: A Study in Musical Drama, Drammaturgia musicale veneta, 1 (Venice. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 1983), and of numerous articles. From 1983 to 1986 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. He is currently writing a book on the musical patronage of Cardinal Montalto in the early seventeenth century.
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Tom Ward (Ph.D., Musicology, University of Pittsburgh) is currently associate professor of Music and Coordinator of Graduate Studies in Music at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Polyphonic Office Hymn from 1400 to 1520 (Stuttgart, 1980), collaborated in the production of the Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music (Stuttgart, 1979–1988) and has contributed articles and reviews to many journals. Current research interests include music and musicians in central Europe during the fifteenth century and the place of music in late medieval universities in addition to the databases described in this issue.
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Walter Hill, J., Ward, T.R. Two relational databases for finding text paraphrases in musicological research. Comput Hum 23, 105–111 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00144730
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