Editions beyond text: Music -...

Raffaele Viglianti

rviglian@umd.edu

DiXiT Camp 2

18 September 2014

Editions beyond text: Music

music as an object of

digital investigation

Common objects of observation in musicology

Music notation

● Printed

● Manuscript

● Ethnographic transcription

● Analytical score

● ...

Common objects of observation in musicology

Performance

● Live

● Recorded

Common objects of observation in musicology

Historical sources

● Composers

● Performers

● Reception

● Social issues

● ...

What is useful to digitize, and how?

Graphemic Acoustic

Auditory

M. Babbit (1965) The use of Computers in Musicological Research

What is useful to digitize, and how?

Graphemic Acoustic

Auditory

M. Babbit (1965) The use of Computers in Musicological Research

Digital editions of music scoresare here. Mostly...

what is a digital edition of music?

Editorial genres are akin to textual editions

- facsimile and critical editions are common

First things first - paper

Example of editorial intervention in a critical edition

(Weber’s Der Freischütz, ed. Viglianti)

First things first - paper

Example of critical apparatus from the Neue Mozart Ausgabe.

e.g. different ornamentation in source B

“Performing” editions

Digital to print

Image from AirTurn website

Digital consumption

Image from AirTurn twitter account @airturn

(from neoscore.com)

Screenshot of musescore.com

scholarly digital editions of music

Going digital - images

OCVE - ocve.org.uk

Going digital - images

Edirom - edirom.de

Screenshot of Freischütz Digital (closed demo)

Descriptive markup for music notation

Mise-en-page is a term used by codicologists for the general layout and

organization of the manuscript page.

Mise-en-page is a term used by codicologists for the general layout and

organization of the manuscript page.

italic

foreign word

Descriptive markup for music notation

Mise-en-page is a term used by cardiologists codicologists for the general

layout and organization of the manuscript page.

Mise-en-page is a term used by cardiologists codicologists for the general

layout and organization of the manuscript page.

authorial revision

Mise-en-page is a term used by cardiologists for the general layout and

organization of the manuscript page.

editorial correction

codicologists

strikethrough

Carl Maria von WeberDer Freischütz (autographe)No. 13, m. 63, soprano (Änchenn)

Descriptive markup for music notation

Carl Maria von WeberDer Freischütz (autographe)No. 13, m. 63, soprano (Änchenn)

Descriptive markup for music notation

small notes vs. alternative

Going digital - markup + rendering

Marenzio - marenzio.org

Going digital - markup + rendering

Lost Voices - digitalduchemin.org

text and music

TEI Special Interest Group in Music

j.mp/TEImusic

● incorporating encoding for music into TEI documents

● encoding music-related documents

Music notation in text

● Found on both historical and contemporary documents

● Treatises

● Scholarly or educational work

● Writings of music professionals● ...

Music notation in text

As a “block”

A letter by L v Beethoven

Music notation in text

In the text flow

Allorto, R. (2002). Nuova storia della musica

Music notation in text

In the text flow ... ?

Tosca di Victorien Sardou, Giuseppe Giacosa e Luigi Illica. Musica di Giacomo Puccini - Gabriella Ravenni (2009)

TEI and music notation

Manuscript description

<musicNotation> - description of type of musical notation in a manuscript

Only music-related element until P5 2.0.0

TEI and music notation

<notatedMusic> - encodes the presence of music notation in a text

Since P5 2.0.0 (2011)

TEI and music notation

<notatedMusic> http://j.

mp/TEInotatedMusic

● <desc> - prose description of the notated music

● <ptr> - pointer to a representation of the music notation

● <graphics> - pointer to a graphical representation of the

music notation

<notatedMusic>

<ptr target="bar1.xml"/>

<graphic url="bar1.png"/>

<desc>First bar of Chopin's Scherzo No.3 Op.39</desc>

</notatedMusic>

try things out

Further readings

Broude, R. (2012), “Musical Works, Musical Texts, and Musical Editions” in Scholarly Editing, v. 33http://scholarlyediting.org/2012/essays/essay.broude.html

And my review at: http://itisnotsound.wordpress.com/2012/03/01/ronald-broudes-new-article-on-musical-works-texts-editions/

Wiering, F. (2009), “Digital Critical Editions of Music: a Multidimensional Model”, in Modern Methods for Musicology, Ashgate.

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