The ERC funded project European Ars Nova aims to study the corpus of poetry in Latin, Italian and French set to music by the polyphonists of the so-called Ars Nova. Since one of the main research goals of the project is the comparative study of musical and poetic texts, we are currently developing a web application that will allow readers to…[Read more]

With Music Performance Markup (MPM) we introduce a new XML format for describing musical performances in a systematic way. The format builds upon a series of mathematical models that capture the characteristics of performance features such as continuous tempo and dynamics transitions, articulations, and metrical accentuations. Bundled with MPM…[Read more]

Music and the scholarship around it can be challenging to present in the forms associated with books and articles – primarily linear and with an emphasis on the static and visual over the sonic and interactive. We introduce the Lohengrin TimeMachine, a multiple-path multimedia app, optimised for a touch-screen tablet. The app offers two essays a…[Read more]

Digital symbolic music scores offer many benefits compared to paper-based scores, such as a flexible dynamic layout that allows adjustments of size and style, intelligent navigation features, automatic page-turning, on-the-fly modifications of the score including transposition into a different key, and rule-based annotations that can save hours of…[Read more]

MEC 2021 BEST PAPER AWARD. Though MEI is widely used in music informatics and digital musicology research, the relative lack of authoring software and the specialised nature of its community have limited the availability of high-quality MEI encodings. Translating to MEI from other encoding formats, or generating MEI via optical music recognition…[Read more]

This paper presents the recent implementation of encoded music notation in two open access platforms of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC) devoted to traditional music and polyphony, respectively: Fondo de Música Tradicional IMF-CSIC (FMT)1 and Books of Hispanic Polyphony IMF-CSIC (BHP)2. Even though, at first, both repertories seem…[Read more]

This panel submission for the 2021 Music Encoding Conference brings together five short papers that focus on the making of computer-readable encodings of polyphony in the notational style – mensural notation – in which it was originally copied. Mensural notation was used in the medieval West to encode polyphony from the late thirteenth to six…[Read more]

Drawing on collaborative research at The National Archives, including through the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council’s programme Towards a National Collection, this talk explores computational archival science, artificial intelligence, citizen involvement, and post-custodial approaches to challenge doom-laden technological determinism, and h…[Read more]

Musicology is a small discipline within the wide spectrum of human knowledge, yet it is already divided into various branches […]. Although they share their object of investigation – “the art of music as a physical, psychological, aesthetic, and cultural phenomenon” –, these branches very often ignore one another. Research in musicology is mostly…[Read more]

Foreword of the Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021.

Conference proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2021 with Foreword by Stefan Münnich and David Rizo.

Since 2004 the author has lectured for the Japanese government foreign aid agency to visiting officials, mostly from developing countries. The 70th 2-hour presentation will be to long-term grantees entering graduate schools in the Kansai region (Osaka, Kobe, Kyoto, Nara, and surroundings) by Zoom. This illustrated slideshow gives an idea of the…[Read more]

Slideshow for a forthcoming invited presentation. ABSTRACT: Podcasting originated as a new form of audio broadcasting, but by 2006, issues of ease of use, proprietary technology, and finances slowed its momentum. Now podcasting is more popular than ever. This presentation therefore traces the author’s initial and current CALL podcasting p…[Read more]

Over approximately the last decade, the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), has become a recognized international community-driven effort that has developed and maintains the MEI schema, standards, and shared documentation. The potential of machine-readable music data that can be reused, rendered, shared, or analyzed using a computer, is quite…[Read more]

Whether citizens, sojourners, or immigrants, most employed residents of Japan will be unable or unwilling to retire. The natural desire to choose the terms of transitions, however, runs into customary age limits, around 65 for full-time and 70 to 75 for part-time employment in the case of higher education. Combined with stereotypical…[Read more]

Las revistas científicas constituyen instancias que contribuyen a la institucionalización y consolidación de campos científicos particulares. El campo científico de los estudios sociales sobre el desarrollo comunitario en América Latina y
el Caribe cuenta con pocas publicaciones seriadas abiertas a la aceptación y el diálogo entre paradig…[Read more]

Fun quiz with a presentation and worksheet for students to answer the questions while the teacher projects the presentation. It upends preconceptions of most Japanese university students and provides a lesson on phenomena such as international marriage, language shift, and the levels of bilingualism formulated by the author.

Me defino como un profesional dedicado a la actividad informativa, devenido en profesor y apasionado por la especialidad. Soy graduado de Ciencias de la Información desde el 2015 por la Universidad Central “Marta Abreu” de Las Villas (UCLV). Formé parte de la cuarta graduación de profesionales del centro país dentro del curso regular diurno…[Read more]