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What is digital musicology?
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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
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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!
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Access - simple
British Library Digitised Manuscriptswww.bl.uk/manuscripts
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Access - enhanced
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Stimmbuch-Viewerhttp://stimmbuecher.digitale-sammlungen.de
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Access - comparing and contrasting
Biblissima Projecthttp://www.biblissima-condorcet.fr/
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Access - comparing and contrasting
Chopin Onlinehttp://www.chopinonline.ac.uk
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Text mining
British Newspaper Archivehttp://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk
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Music mining
RISM Incipit searchhttps://opac.rism.info
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Data visualisation
Google Books Ngram Viewerhttps://books.google.com/ngrams
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Working with datasets
British Library Music Cataloguing Data
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More British Library datasets
British Library Music Cataloguing Data
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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?
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Big Data History of Music
Places of publication and publishers, 1500-1800 Visualised with Google Fusion: https://support.google.com/fusiontables
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Creating your own dataset
Music pamphlets printed in Augsburg, 1500 to 1600Data added to USTC: http://www.ustc.ac.uk
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Cleaning up data
Open Refinehttp://www.openrefine.org
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Crowdsourcing
Tudor Partbooks Projecthttp://www.tudorpartbooks.ac.uk
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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
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And in conclusion …
Digital musicology does not replace the close study of texts, scores and recordings, but it can complement it!
