Workflows: how do researchers do their research? how does collaboration work? 6 October 2017 As part of the Transforming Musicology project, we have tried to examine not just the academic and the technological aspects of musicological research, but also the way in which such work is carried out. This blog outlines what some of our observations.
Supercomputing opportunities for musicological investigations 3 August 2017 The Transforming Musicology project carried out a preliminary investigation of the viability of supercomputing for the various tools being used within the project. This blog post summarises what we found.
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS) 2016 Report 20 September 2016 Report on our second Digital Musicology workshop at the week-long Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School.
From lutetab to frettab 17 May 2016 Expanding our exploration of how to represent tablature notation from looking at just historical lute music to include popular music for the guitar family is important. Richard looks at some of the changes we’re making to support more tablature notations.
Musical Scholarship and the Future of Academic Publishing 12 April 2016 Report on an event organised with the Academic Book of the Future project, looking at the future of scholarly publishing in music.
Numbers into Notes – Ada Lovelace and Music 14 December 2015 As part of the celebrations of the bicentenary of Ada Lovelace’s birth, we explored mathematics, computation, and music through a performance of Ada sketches, a short operatic work by Emily Howard.
Addressing the Music Information Needs of Musicologists 27 November 2015 Report of a tutorial at the International Society for Music Information Retrieval conference (ISMIR)
Digital Approaches to Early Music and Linked Music Hackathon 19 October 2015 Report of a public workshop and hackathon run by the project, including public data that we work with and some specially provided for the day by RILM.
Large-scale corpus analysis of historical electronic music 26 May 2015 Analysing electronic music for a Transforming Musicology miniproject.
Setting up audio search tools 6 May 2015 Installing audioDB, a multi-dimensional feature database search tool designed for audio.
Similarity: haven't we heard this before somewhere? 9 April 2015 Similarity is an important concept in our project and much other research, but do we really know what it is? Is it even a single thing?
Medieval Music, Big Data and the Research Blend 16 March 2015 Understanding conductus: Gregorio writes about the miniproject searching the Web for texts of this medieval genre.
Thrash Metal, Wiki Data, and The Problem of Web Scraping 15 January 2015 Was thrash metal started in 1918? Justin discusses the reliability of online data.
Does Wagner do your head in? 17 November 2014 The Transforming Musicology team was at Wagner's Ring Cycle at the Birmingham Hippodrome this month, capturing physical data from audience members.
Introducing Wagnerism 30 September 2014 If Richard Wagner were to have known before he died that some scientists in the future would create a psychometric tool to measure the "Wagnerism" in a given individual, would he be flattered or appalled?
Customising MEI for lute tablature 21 May 2014 The Music Encoding Initiative provides an open standard for publishing notated music, but its support for tablatures is currently weak. In this post, Richard discusses plans to improve it.
Listening for Leitmotives in Wagner 19 May 2014 Considering how different groups of people experience leitmotifs has remained very unexplored in much of the academic literature. David Baker talks about how we're approaching this question.
Marking up opera 7 May 2014 Opera libretti represent a special sort of structured text. In this post, Richard describes an approach to recording that structure using an extension of the Text Encoding Intiative standard.
EMO catalogue and images: Where to go from here 7 April 2014 A brief description of efforts to enrich the catalogue information from Early Music Online and to relate it to specific page images
Exploring musical data sources 3 December 2013 Collections of music for use in the project will have some information in common. This entry discusses APIs and semantic web technologies to allow us to structure this common information.
EMO work alignment using musical content 22 November 2013 Using automally-transcribed musical content as a means of identifying works in Early Music Online, connecting to both other pieces in EMO and in external resources such as RISM.
Collaborating with the PRAISE project 31 October 2013 Exploring connections between Transforming Musicology and an education-related project, PRAISE (Practice and peRformance Analysis Inspiring Social Education).
Social Music Analysis Widget 18 October 2013 What might software to support analysing social, online music interactions look like?
