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An archive-exploration system for the Hunting Songs of the Lakeland Fell Packs
From everyday users to expert archivists, there is a keen interest in being able to search digital library catalogues via domain-specific languages and queries. This paper presents a proof-of-concept system that enables library users to search ...
Archiving the Sonic Ephemeral: Towards a classification of sound installation documentations through spatial audio features
This paper proposes the application of audio feature extraction for the classification of sonic documentations of the works presented during the Singuhr Hoergalerie Project from 1996 to 2014. More specifically, I utilize the Stereo Panning Spectrum ...
Cross-Cultural Corpus Creation and Statistical Tendencies in Music
The notion that some musical features can be found in a majority of cultures across the globe has garnered scholarly attention within the past decade [6, 29]. However, the lack of both large and diverse musical corpora has made furthering work on this ...
Notes on the Music: A social data infrastructure for music annotation
- David M. Weigl,
- Werner Goebl,
- David J. Baker,
- Tim Crawford,
- Federico Zubani,
- Aggelos Gkiokas,
- Nicolas F. Gutierrez,
- Alastair Porter,
- Patricia Santos
Beside transmitting musical meaning from composer to reader, symbolic music notation affords the dynamic addition of layers of information by annotation. This allows music scores to serve as rudimentary communication frameworks. Music encodings bring ...
Serial Analysis: A Digital Library of Rows in the Repertoire and their Properties, with Applications for Teaching and Research
Recent years have seen the emergence of concerted efforts for consolidating and curating digital libraries of musical analyses. This is a welcome development that stands to complement the more established attention to collections of musical resources ...
Towards a Foundation for Collaborative Digital Archiving with Local Concert-Giving Organisations
- Charlotte Armstrong,
- Rachel Cowgill,
- Alan Dix,
- Christina Bashford,
- J. Stephen Downie,
- Mike Twidale,
- Maureen Reagan,
- Rupert Ridgewell
The centenaries of former chapters of the British Music Society (BMS), established in 1918, have prompted their governing bodies to take stock of their histories and build on the cataloguing, documentation and preservation of their archival ...
Narratives and exploration in a musicology app: Supporting scholarly argument with the Lohengrin TimeMachine
We present the Lohengrin TimeMachine web application, consisting of video and textual musicological essays supported by an interactive digital companion. The digital companion allows a user to browse and compare all the occurrences of a motive in the ...
The Path to the New Note: Interval Distributions in the Music of Anton Webern
Intervals, the distances between notes, are a common topic in the analysis of post-tonal music, and this is certainly true with regard to the music of Anton Webern. There is a lack, however, of rigorous empirical analysis of this aspect of Webern’s ...
Symbolic Encoding of Simultaneities: Re-designing the General Chord Type Representation
Encoding note simultaneities (chords) has been approached in different ways, such as Roman numerals for tonal harmony, or pitch class sets encountered in atonal and non-tonal music. A novel chord representation, the General Chord Type (GCT) ...
Encoding, Analysing and Modeling I-Folk: A New Database of Iberian Folk Music
- Nádia Carvalho,
- Sara Gonzalez-Gutierrez,
- Javier Merchan Sanchez-Jara,
- Gilberto Bernardes,
- Maria Navarro-Cáceres
Folk music is a fundamental immaterial heritage that promotes cultural identity. However, it lacks a substantial body of open access materials, and its promotion has been disconnected from the education curriculum. In this context, facilitated access ...
What are the most used guitar positions?
The playing of stringed instruments can be notated with symbolic tablatures, indicating for each note, the string, and the position on the fretboard at which it has to be played. We propose an encoding for tablatures in which the hand position on the ...
Discovering Common Practice: Using Graph Theory to Compare Harmonic Sequences in Musical Audio Collections
In recent decades, rapid technological advances have resulted in a huge quantity of readily accessible digital musical recordings. The scope of large corpora presents difficulties for curators but offers new opportunities to musicologists and music ...
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- Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology