Digital Technologies Applied to Music Research: Methodologies, Projects and Challenges
27-29 June 2024, Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities – NOVA University Lisbon
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All the sessions take place in either Auditorium B2 (3rd floor) or Auditorium B3 (5th floor)
27 June
9:00 Registration desk opens
9:45 Welcome (Auditorium B2)
Parallel sessions 1. 10:00-11:00
Auditorium B2. Digital early music:
Chair: Manuel Pedro Ferreira
Debra Lacoste, Dalhousie University, The “Cantus Index” Tool: Its History and a Roadmap for the Future
Alessandra Ignesti, University of Oslo, Classification challenges and database ecology: The case of the Benedicamus Domino inventory
Auditorium B3. Digital musicology:
Chair: Ilias Kyriazis
Kevin Allain, Tillman Weyde, City, University of London, On Collaborative Research Tools for Digital Jazz Archives
Marcin Konik,1 Craig Stuart Sapp,2 Jacek Iwaszko1. 1Narodowy Instytut Fryderyka Chopina, 2Stanford University / Packard Humanities Institute, Polish Music Heritage in Open Access
coffee break 11:00-11:30
Parallel sessions 2. 11:30-13:00
Auditorium B2. Digital early music:
Chair: Jennifer Bain
Hana Vlhová-Wörner, Czech Academy of Sciences, Digital Edition of the Jistebnice Kancionál (ca. 1420–1434): Source, Transcriptions, Information Network
Haig Utidjian, CESEM-IN2PAST, NOVA University Lisbon, On the application of appropriate software tools on Armenian mediaeval neumated sources
Antoine Phan1,2, Martha E. Thomae,1 Elsa De Luca1. 1CESEM-IN2PAST, NOVA University Lisbon, 2McGill University, ECHOES MEI Analyser: Enhancing Musicological Analysis through Digital Tools
Auditorium B3. Digital musicology:
Chair: Joshua Neumann
Jason Yin Hei Lee, McGill University, Tone-Melody Correspondence and Melodic Regression in Cantonese Popular Music: Evidence from a Corpus Study
Andreas Waczkat, University of Göttingen, Research into the sound ideal of the chamber organs in George Frideric Handel’s London environment using digital methods
Gilberto Bernardes,1 Maria Navarro Cáceres2. 1University of Porto, 2University of Salamanca, Melodic Development in Folk Diatonic Modal Music: A Cross-cultural Empirical Study
LUNCH 13:00-14:45
Parallel sessions 3. 14:45-16:15
Auditorium B2. Iberian plainchant:
Chair: Elsa De Luca
Santiago Ruiz Torres, Universidad de Salamanca, The transmission of special neumes in newly created Iberian plainchant repertoires in Aquitanian notation.
Inês Nunes Trindade, CESEM-IN2PAST, NOVA University Lisbon, The Liturgy of Braga: Uncovering the Melodies of Commnunion Chants
Francesco Orio, CESEM-IN2PAST, NOVA University Lisbon / Universitat de Barcelona, French Threads in the Braga Liturgy: Insights from Newly Studied Plainchant Fragments
Auditorium B3. Digital musicology:
Chair: J. Stephen Downie
Carlos Vaquero Patricio,1 Ana Llorens,2 Álvaro Torrente1, 2. 1Instituto Complutense Ciencias Musicales, 2Universidad Complutense de Madrid, “Harmonies of Empowerment: Unveiling Gender Dynamics and Vocal Artistry in 18th-Century Italian Opera Seria”
Lucas Hofmann,1 Craig S. Sapp,2 Fabian C. Moss1. 1Julius-Maximilians Universität Würzburg, 2Stanford University / Packard Humanities Institute, Encoding polymeters and metric irregularities in selected motets from Hugo Distler’s Der Jahrkreis op. 5 using different music encoding formats
Fernando Gualda, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, The Space Between the Notes: Digital Encoding of Subtleties of Inflection, Performative Affordances, and Music Analysis
Posters 16:15-16:45
Adriana Filipa Cordeiro Simão, CESEM-IN2PAST, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, NOVA, Highlights on some Plainchant Fragments in Square Notation in Braga
Jean-François Goudesenne, IRHT-Orléans Aubervilliers, XXIst century Digital humanities confronted to the Pre-Guidonian Transmission of Cantus: How to found new Critical editions after the 60’s computing illusion
Robert Klugseder, Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage (ACDH-CH) of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Handwritten Text and Music Recognition with Transkribus: Plainchant manuscripts of the Central Library of the Viennese Franciscan Province Graz
Emmy Tither, J. Stephen Downie, Madelyn Rose Sanfilippo, School of Information Sciences, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Music as Torture: Using Formal Concept Analysis to Map the Taxonomy of Sonic Human Rights and Restrictions
Asterios Zacharakis, Eirini Gkougkoustamou, Emilios Cambouropoulos, School of Music Studies, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Audio feature extraction for the analysis of singing voices from Greek Rebetiko
coffee break 16:45-17:15
Plenary Session 1. 17:15-18:15
Auditorium B2. Digital early music:
Chair: Yossi Maurey
Francisco M. Camas, Tania Toledano, Paloma Gutiérrez del Arroyo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Phylogeny and melodic recovery of modal melismas in an early Franco-Roman antiphoner of Silos
Antonio Pedrero1, Eduardo Carrero2, Carmen Julia Gutiérrez3, Alexander Díaz-Chyla1, María Larrosa1, Daniel de la Prida1, Silvio Sgotto4. 1Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, 2Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona , 3Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 4Politecnico di Milano, Virtual acoustics of the church of Sant Miquel in Terrasa, Spain
Keynote session 1. 18:15-19:15
Auditorium B2. Ichiro Fujinaga, McGill University, Digital Echoes from the Middle Ages: A Framework for Analyzing Plainchants
28 June
Parallel sessions 4. 9:30-11:00
Auditorium B2. Digital early music:
Chair: Ichiro Fujinaga
Tim Eipert, Alexander Hartelt, Fabian Moss, Frank Puppe, University of Würzburg, Medieval Chant Lineages Unlocked: Leveraging Optical Music Recognition for Phylogenetic Analysis of Gregorian Proper
Eliseo Fuentes-Martínez,1 David Rizo,2 Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza1. 1University of Alicante, 2Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas de la Comunidad Valenciana, New Challenges in Optical Music Recognition for Gregorian Chant: Aligned Music Notation and Lyrics Transcription
Martha E. Thomae,1 Ellis Reyes,2 Geneviève Gates-Panneton,2 Julie E. Cumming,2 Ichiro Fujinaga2. 1CESEM-IN2PAST, NOVA University Lisbon, 2McGill University, Digital Images and Symbolic Corpus of Sacred Polyphonic Music in Guatemala and their Retrieval Process
Starting at 10:00. Auditorium B3. Digital musicology:
Chair: Reinier de Valk
Evangelia Spyrakou, Petros Vouvaris, Evgenios Politis, University of Macedonia, A digital tool for historical musicologists and performers: M.EL.O.S platform of interconnected knowledge repositories of Greek music heritage
George Kokkonis,1 Nikos Ordoulidis,1 George Evangelou,2 Savvas Kazazis2. 1Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 2University of Ioannina, Analysing tempo stability in Greek rebetiko music. The case of Vasilis Tsitsanis’s repertoire
coffee break 11:00-11:30
Parallel sessions 5. 11:30-13:00
Auditorium B2. Digital early music
Chair: Fabian Moss
Ilias Kyriazis, Austrian National Library / Vienna University of Technology, The E-LAUTE critical edition as open knowledge platform and semantic network
Reinier de Valk, University of Vienna, Institute for Musicology, AbsoLutely Tabulous — A toolbox for computational processing and analysis of music in lute tablature
Olja Janjuš, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Institute for Musicology, Computational analysis of German lute tablature: The interplay of data representations and tools
Auditorium B3. Digital musicology
Chair: Debra Lacoste
Joseph G. Goldstein,1 Christina Bashford,1 Maureen Reagan,1 Rachel Cowgill,2 J. Stephen Downie,1 Michael B. Twidale,1 Alan J. Dix,3 Frankie Perry, 4 Rupert Ridgewell,5 David Bainbridge6. 1University of Illinois, 2University of York, 3Cardiff Metropolitan University, 4Independent Scholar, 5The British Library, 6University of Waikato, Using Digital Library Tools for Musicological Scholarship Production and Dissemination: “Stravinsky in Urbana” Case Study
Ewa Dahlig-Turek, Anna Maria Matuszewska, Institute of Art, Polish Academy of Sciences, The EsAC Collection – music database that gains new life from technological advances
Lena Frömmel, Tobias Bachmann, Andreas Münzmay, Universität Paderborn, OPEN UP – Enhancing Knowledge Transfer and Reusability by Digital Music Edition Technologies
LUNCH 13:00-14:45
Plenary session 2. 14:45-16:15
Auditorium B2. Digital early music:
Chair: João Pedro d’Alvarenga
Karen Desmond, Maynooth University, The Worcester sound: Detecting ‘communities of style’ in medieval polyphony
Joshua Stutter, University of Sheffield, Beyond “editing” organum purum: editors, processes, representation
Adam Knight Gilbert,1 Andrew Goldman2. 1University of Southern California, 2Indiana University, Searching for Symmetries in Fifteenth-Century Counterpoint with GaGA
coffee break 16:15-16:45
Plenary session 3. 16:45-17:45
Auditorium B2. Digital musicology:
Chair: Craig Sapp
Samuel Pereira,1 Gilberto Bernardes,1 José Oliveira Martins2. 1University of Porto, 2University of Coimbra, Historical Evolution of Harmonic Qualities in Music: Unravelling Fourier’s Tonality, Entropy, and Ambiguity from the 16th to the 20th Centuries
Denise Petzold, Jorge Enrique Lozano Diaz Granados, Maastricht University / Maastricht Centre for the Innovation of Classical Music, A Playful Intervention into Music Research: Ontological Musings on Digital Technologies as Musical Instruments
Keynote session 2. 17:45-18:45
Auditorium B2. Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University, Sustaining Digital Musicology
Conference dinner 20:30 at “Cervejaria Real Fábrica”. Address: Rua da Escola Politécnica 275, 1250-101 Lisboa. You can take the metro, yellow line, at “Campo Pequeno” and leave at “Rato”.
29 June
Plenary session 4. 9:00-10:30
Auditorium B2. Collaborations in Musicology & COST Early Muse I, Lightning Papers:
Chair: Manuel Pedro Ferreira
Cory McKay,1 María Elena Cuenca2. 1Marianopolis College, 2Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Harmonious Research Collaborations in Computational Musicology
Eduard Lazorík, Institute of Musicology of Slovak Academy of Sciences, Short History of Medieval Manuscript Destruction in Slovakia
Chiara Mazzoletti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Uncatalogued shelfmarks: the case of liturgical fragments in the Episcopal Archive of Vic (Spain)
Kalina Tomova, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, The peculiar case of a chant manuscript in Sofia
Joshua Neumann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz, Of Motets and a FAIR MerMEId
coffee break 10:30-11:00
Plenary session 5. 11:00-12:00
Auditorium B2. COST Early Muse II, Roundtable – Practicalities of Dealing with Endangered Sources: Affordances and Limitations of Analogue and Digital Approaches
Chair: João Pedro d’Alvarenga
Ana Čizmić Grbić, University of Zagreb, Academy of Music
Eduard Lazorík, Institute of Musicology of Slovak Academy of Sciences
Yossi Maurey, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chiara Mazzoletti, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Joshua Neumann, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz
Juan José Pérez Gual, Universidad de Granada
Katarina Šter, ZRC SAZU Institute of Musicology, Slovenia
29 June – Workshops: ECHOES, LinkedMusic
Auditorium B2.
14:00-15:30 ECHOES workshop on the automatic analysis of early music sources led by Elsa De Luca, Martha Thomae, and Antoine Phan
15:30 – 16:00 coffee break
16:00-17:15 LinkedMusic workshop led by Ichiro Fujinaga