1st Edition

Modern Methods for Musicology Prospects, Proposals, and Realities

Edited By Tim Crawford, Lorna Gibson Copyright 2009
214 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

216 Pages
by Routledge

Written by leading experts, this volume provides a picture of the realities of current ICT use in musicology as well as prospects and proposals for how it could be fruitfully used in the future. Through its coverage of topics spanning content-based sound searching/retrieval, sound and content analysis, markup and text encoding, audio resource sharing, and music recognition, this book highlights... Read more
1: Introduction; 2: Computer Representation of Music in the Research Environment; 3: Digital Critical Editions of Music: A Multidimensional Model; 4: Filling Gaps between Current Musicological Practice and Computer Technology at IRCAM; 5: The Computer and the Singing Voice; 6: Mapping the Use of ICT in Creative Music Practice; 7: On the Use of Computational Methods for Expressive Music Performance; 8: Understanding the Capabilities of ICT Tools for Searching, Annotation and Analysis of Audio-visual Media; 9: Audio Tools for Music Discovery; 10: ‘What was the question?’: Music Analysis and the Computer

Biography

Tim Crawford is Senior Lecturer in Computational Musicology at Goldsmiths, University of London. He is the UK coordinator and co-founder of the OMRAS (Online Music Recognition and Searching) project. Lorna Gibson is a Divisional Manager at the University College London, UK.