Digital Humanities

Musicologists & music theorists have traditionally been early adopters of technological tools to assist with research. The earliest digital humanities projects in musicology & music theory came directly out of humanities computing and quantitative analytical technologies developed in the 1980s, but newer projects created since the mid-2000s still reflect this past of algorithmic analysis and archival compilation, retrieval, & display. Computational & archival research is, currently, only one branch of digital humanities. The umbrella of digital humanities research now also includes digital publishing, philosophies of digital research, & "born digital" projects that cannot exist outside of a digital medium (e.g., virtual reality or 3D modeling). This shift in the digital humanities represents a move to a "bigger tent" that includes more types of projects. Musicological and musico-theoretical scholarship is slowly moving in this direction. Music librarians have been at the forefront of identifying & promoting new digital tools & archives, even though these projects have tended to remain at the periphery of musico-theoretical discourse. They should be on the lookout for "bigger tent" projects, such as medieval & renaissance projects like the Isabelle D'Este Archive, Opening the Geesebook, and the Experience of Worship. These projects are characterized by being iterative & multi-modally engaging, as well as emerging from communities of practice & intentionally engaging a public audience.

Digital methods have begun to make their way into the research practices of music scholars, & most of this insurgence can be attributed to the rise of the discipline of music technology. Though digital humanities-related research methods are becoming increasingly prevalent among the research & teaching methodologies of music scholars, evidence gathered from course descriptions & presentations at national meetings of music scholars would indicate that these digital methods continue to lag other music-based technologies. Drawing from the advancement of music technology & the experiences of digital humanities teaching and scholarship, this paper presents a path for libraries to promote greater integration of digital methods into the pedagogical practices of music historians & music theorists

Explores the analysis & interpretation, discovery & retrieval of a variety of non-textual objects, including image, music & moving image. This book provides an overview of the theoretical & academic aspects of digital cultural documentation & considers both technical & strategic issues relating to cultural heritage projects, digital asset management & sustainability. Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery & retrieval draws from disciplines including information retrieval, library & information science (LIS), digital preservation, digital humanities, cultural theory, digital media studies & art history. It's argued that this multidisciplinary & interdisciplinary approach is both necessary & useful in the age of the ubiquitous & mobile Web.

Is a forum for musicological research engaged with digital technology. It uses the term “musicology” in its broadest sense: including more traditional approaches, such as ethnomusicology, historical musicology, & music theory, as well as newer ones, such as music information retrieval, music library studies, & music perception & cognition. Articles engage with Western art music, non-Western art music & popular music from any regional tradition. Scholarship engages with musical scores & recorded music, as well as scholarship engaged with written texts about the music itself or the context in which music is created or received. It showcases papers that describe new methods, tools, & infrastructures, papers that use existing technologies for both big & small data investigations of musicological questions, & papers that comparatively evaluate existing approaches. It showcases papers that consider technical or philosophical issues related to the acquisition, representation, & standardization of musicological data.

An open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. It is a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to: experimenting with publication formats & the rhetoric of digital authoring co-publishing articles with Literary & Linguistic Computing (a well-established print digital humanities journal) in ways that straddle the print/digital divide using open standards to deliver journal content developing translation services & multilingual reviewing in keeping with the strongly international character of ADHO. It publishes a wide range of peer-reviewed materials, including: scholarly articles, case studies, & field reports, editorials & provocative opinion pieces, experiments in interactive media, reviews of books, web sites, new media art installations, digital humanities systems and tools.

Music databases such as Music Index & JSTOR will provide citations & links to articles on digital music. One can use interlibrary loan to obtain any articles we don' town.

5 minutes October 22, 2017

36 minutes July 12, 2018