ABSTRACT: From Historical Collections to Metadata: a case study in Scottish Musical Inheritance, paper by Dr Karen E McAulay, Music & Academic Services Librarian, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. The contemporary librarian is more than ever before a conduit for making historical material available to scholars and performers alike. The challenge in today’s world is not only to augment the crucial early manuscripts and publications with appropriate electronic versions, but to provide added value by enriching them with contextual and interpretative information. The 3-year AHRC-funded project, Bass Culture in Scottish Musical Traditions, seeks to address this set of issues in Scottish bagpipe and fiddle music. Involving the Universities of Glasgow and Cambridge and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, it will provide a substantial web resource of sources and their interpretation, engaging with musicians working in a number of traditions to develop historically-informed practices. The aim is to enable musicians to have an understanding of the structures underpinning Scottish fiddle and pipe music, enriching the traditions with a deeper, more widespread appreciation of the diversity of their roots. The metadata requirements of the two repertoires have similarities and divergences; flexibility is needed to apply suitable metadata across both. Compatibility with pre-existing approaches is also a prerequisite. By October 2014, we will be building the web resource; this conference would provide a perfect opportunity to share an innovative collaboration between musicology, librarianship and web development.
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1. From Historical Collections to Metadata A case study in
Scottish Musical Inheritance Karen E McAulay, Royal Conservatoire
of Scotland
2. Timeless and Unchanging? 1822, and 1845: William Marshalls
updated piano accompaniment 3. It's disturbing when I see kids on
buses, listening to music on their phones, and it's just going:
tsk, tsk, tsk, tsk, with no bass. Bass culture is Jamaica's gift to
the world and technology is, kind of, ruining that. Bass is sexy.
Don Letts, Is this it?, The Guardian, 4 April 2009 Photo: Eamonn
McCabe But why, Bass Culture? 4. Charles Gore From book to database
http://www.scottishmusicindex.org/ 5. Gores system based on:-
Breandan Breathnachs Irish collection, Ceol Rince na hEireann,
(Breathnach & Small, 1963) Gores Index 6. Wighton Heritage
Centre Dundee
http://www.leisureandculturedundee.com/library/wighton Friends of
Wighton http://www.friendsofwighton. com/contact.htm Temporary
Wighton Database Search Facility http://www.johnbagnall.info/
allwighton.html 7. Early American Secular Music and Its European
Sources, 15891839: An Index
http://www.colonialdancing.org/Easmes/Index.htm 8. Nigel Gatherers
Traditional Music http://www.nigelgatherer.com/index.html 9.
National Library of Scotland Digital Gallery
http://digital.nls.uk/gallery.cfm Special Collections of Printed
Music http://digital.nls.uk/special-collections-of-printed-
music/pageturner.cfm?id=97135480 10. copac* Union Catalogue for UK
University and National Libraries http://copac.ac.uk/ 11. Work in
Progress 12. Outputs Hms.Scot 22 tune-books digitised Searchable by
tune titles, personal names and places Incipits and cadences Visual
comparisons Commentary on collections, tunes and paratext
Spreadsheet contents 13. Project Social Media Twitter @bassyculture
Blog: Bassculture.info/ Dont just follow talk to us! 14. Dr Karen
McAulay [email protected] @bassyculture @karenmca
BassCulture.info/(Mrs Gordon of Knockespoch mp3) 15. Concerto
Caledonia was playing Mrs Gordon of Knockespoch, from William
Marshalls Volume 2nd of a Collection of Scottish Melodies, Reels,
Strathspeys, 1845
