Taking music notation from paper to digital in musicological research
Event details
| Date | 19.12.2014 |
| Hour | 10:00 |
| Speaker | Dr. Laurent Pugin, Co-director of the Swiss RISM (Répertoire International des Sources Musicales) Office |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Most of the music that forms the heritage of Western culture has been preserved in a written form and held in libraries and archives. The music notation systems used in written documents have been in constant evolution during the course of music history, according to the needs of composers who adapted it to their ideas. This gives rise to fascinating challenges in the digital world at different levels, many of which have been research fields for years: encoding music notation, transcribing it by optical recognition, not to mention rendering, analysing and searching it.
Thanks to technological progress and the development of online capabilities, we currently have unique opportunities to bring these research fields together in completely new ways. This can be done on a large scale in conjunction with bibliographic and digitization initiatives, but also through highly specialized projects such as digital critical editions.
This presentation will look at some of the perspectives open to digital musicology, in the light of leading projects that are addressing those challenges.
Picture by Algont from nl [CC-BY-SA]
Thanks to technological progress and the development of online capabilities, we currently have unique opportunities to bring these research fields together in completely new ways. This can be done on a large scale in conjunction with bibliographic and digitization initiatives, but also through highly specialized projects such as digital critical editions.
This presentation will look at some of the perspectives open to digital musicology, in the light of leading projects that are addressing those challenges.
Picture by Algont from nl [CC-BY-SA]
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Practical information
- General public
- Free
Organizer
- Collège des Humanités