Digital musicology by Amelie Roper
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Digital musicology uses digital tools and large datasets to analyze and study music in new ways. It requires datasets of music-related materials like scores and recordings. Researchers use tools to search, analyze, and visualize results from these datasets. Examples include using algorithms to analyze music manuscripts or explore trends in music publication histories over time. Digital musicology allows exploring more source materials and gaining broader insights than traditional close study alone.
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- 1. Digital Musicology Amelie Roper Curator, Digital Music [email protected] @amelieroper
- 2. www.bl.uk 2 What is digital musicology?
- 3. www.bl.uk 3 What is needed for digital research? • A ‘corpus’ (pl. ‘corpora’) or collection of data: – Text-based (newspapers, journals, books) – Music-notation based (printed and manuscript music) – Audio-based (sound and video) • A means of searching, browsing or analysing the data • A way of collecting, interpreting and displaying the results
- 4. www.bl.uk 4 Some examples … • Developing computer programmes that can read music manuscripts and generate instant transcriptions • Writing algorithms to analyse music • But needn’t be high-tech!
- 5. www.bl.uk 5 Access - simple British Library Digitised Manuscripts www.bl.uk/manuscripts
- 6. www.bl.uk 6 Access - enhanced Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Stimmbuch-Viewer http://stimmbuecher.digitale-sammlungen.de
- 7. www.bl.uk 7 Access - comparing and contrasting Biblissima Project http://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/
- 8. www.bl.uk 8 Access - comparing and contrasting Chopin Online http://www.chopinonline.ac.uk
- 9. www.bl.uk 9 Text mining British Newspaper Archive http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
- 10. www.bl.uk 10 Music mining RISM Incipit search https://opac.rism.info
- 11. www.bl.uk 11 Music mining Peachnote Ngram Viewer http://www.peachnote.com
- 12. www.bl.uk 12 Data visualisation Google Books Ngram Viewer https://books.google.com/ngrams
- 13. www.bl.uk 13 Working with datasets British Library Music Cataloguing Data http://www.bl.uk/bibliographic/download.html
- 14. www.bl.uk 14 More British Library datasets British Library Music Cataloguing Data https://data.bl.uk
- 15. www.bl.uk 15 When working with datasets, bear in mind … • Source of the data, its reliability, coverage, completeness • Results are only as good as the original data • Much data generated by OCR is imperfect • Ownership and rights issues: – What am I allowed to do with the data? – How should I credit the data owner/creator?
- 16. www.bl.uk 16 Big Data History of Music Places of publication and publishers, 1500-1800 Visualised with Google Fusion: https://support.google.com/fusiontables
- 17. www.bl.uk 17 Creating your own dataset Music pamphlets printed in Augsburg, 1500 to 1600 Data added to USTC: http://www.ustc.ac.uk
- 18. www.bl.uk 18 Cleaning up data Open Refine http://www.openrefine.org
- 19. www.bl.uk 19 Crowdsourcing Tudor Partbooks Project http://www.tudorpartbooks.ac.uk
- 20. www.bl.uk 20 Applying digital musicology techniques to your research enables you to … • Explore a bigger body of material • See trends, patterns and relationships • Gain a broad overview of a topic • Test an idea or hypothesis on a large dataset
- 21. www.bl.uk 21 And in conclusion … Digital musicology does not replace the close study of texts, scores and recordings, but it can complement it!