Research Updates
| Arrangements of Beethoven's music | Music for the Home |
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Beethoven and Beyond: Project closes with a conference panel in CambridgeThe Beethoven in the House project closed with a panel discussion at the congress of the International Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (IAML) in Cambridge. We presented some of our musicological and technical research, and looked ahead to the future, both in our presentations and the discussions that followed.
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Customized Schema for MEI CompletedThe Beethoven in the House project required several customizations to the standard MEI encoding format to accommodate our arrangement comparison use cases and our Music Annotation Ontology.
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Beethoven in the House Annotator App v2.0 ReleasedA new version of the Beethoven in the House Annotator app has been released!
The new version features a targeted view of the relevant measures from each digital source when adding annotations to a passage that occurs in multiple arrangements.
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Talking about The Harmonicon at Digital Music Research NetworkAt DMRN+17 in London, David presented a summary of his research into The Harmonicon, a London-based music journal of the 1820s and early 1830s. Emphasising the important role such publications played in bringing new music to a domestic audience, he showed how our annotation tool supports the research process. This was illustrated with a simple video screencast showing some annotation in action.
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Annotator: 1st Round of User EvaluationIn the weeks following the Beethoven-Studienkolleg, nine participants took part in more in-depth interviews about our web application tool. The interviews took about one hour each and were centered around the app’s functionality and user experience.
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Integration of the Edirom "Cartographer" OMR toolFor use in project encodings, Edirom adapted their Optical Music Recognition (OMR) technology for use in an online app: Cartographer. The Cartographer app is able to identify the bar-lines in a digital image of a musical score. It then assigns coordinates and measure numbers to the regions between the lines and associates these with the matching measures in an MEI encoding.
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GfM 2022 — Project Presentation in BerlinThe annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) in Berlin was an opportunity for the entire Beethoven in the House research team to present progress on all aspects of the project, as well as demonstrate the current stage of application development.
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IMS 2022 — Beethoven’s Large Scale Works outside the Concert Hall: Towards a Digital Representation of Domestic ArrangementsThe 21st Quinquennial Congress of the International Musicological Society was held in August in Athens, where the project hosted a round table chaired by Christine Siegert. The discussion addressed the advantages and difficulties in using digital frameworks and tools to document and analyse the rich repertoire of 19th century arrangements of Beethoven’s works.
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Encoding arrangements at the Beethoven-Haus summer schoolFor several years, the Beethoven-Haus in Bonn has run an annual four-day Studienkolleg (summer school) and this year, with the help of the Beethoven in the House project, the theme was Beethoven-Bearbeitungen und ihre digitale Darstellung (‘Beethoven arrangements and their digital representation’).
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Unleashing the Model: Developing a Prototype for Comparing Remote ResourcesArmed with a new model for comparing different versions of the same musical work, we went to work on creating a prototype for a web application that would allow us to identify, label, and comment upon digitized works held in remote repositories.
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First Batch of Bodleian Arrangements Digitized and Available OnlineThe first batch of arrangements from the Bodleian Library collection have been scanned and are now available online.
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DLfM 2022 — A model for annotating musical versions and arrangements across multiple documents and mediaThe international conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) was this year run in association with the annual congress of the International Association of Music Librarians (IAML) in Prague.
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DH2022 — Modeling Music for Musicologists: A Linked Open Data ApproachIn anticipation of our team presentation and article for the Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM) conference this summer, Mark presented the current state of the project’s data model at the international Digital Humanities (DH2022) conference (hosted in Tokyo, but fully online).
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MEC 2022 — A New Conceptual Model for Musical Sources and Musicological StudiesThe model developed by the project team to connect musicological annotations to digitized sources was first unveiled at the Music Encoding Conference 2022 in Halifax.
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GfM 2021 — Beethoven Arrangements: Can digital approaches widen our investigative reach?The theme of this year’s annual conference of the Gesellschaft für Musikforschung (GfM) was Muskwissenschaft nach Beethoven (‘Musicology after Beethoven’). Held in Bonn just after our first in-person full project meeting, it gave us the perfect opportunity to present our goals and our work so far.
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Modelling musical arrangements: Ontology design in lockdownBefore we can build tools to support scholarly research on arrangements and help capture and publish that research, we need to agree on how it, and the various musical arrangements that are used as evidence, should be represented digitally.
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