Modern Methods for Musicology: Prospects, Proposals, and Realities (Digital Research in the Arts and Humanities)

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 the breadth and inter-disciplinary nature of the subject matter and provides a valuable resource to technologists, musicologists, musicians and music educators. It facilitates the identification of worthwhile goals to be achieved using technology and effective interdisciplinary collaboration. Introduction / David Meredith -- Computer representation of music in the research environment / Geraint A. Wiggins -- Digital critical editions of music : a multidimensional model / Frans Wiering -- Filling gaps between current musicological practice and computer technology at IRCAM / Michael Fingerhut and Nicolas Donin -- The computer and the singing voice / David M. Howard -- Modern methods for musicology : prospects, proposals and realities : mapping the use of ICT in creative music practice / Celia Duffy -- On the use of computational methods for expressive music performance / Werner Goebl and Gerhard Widmer -- Understanding the capabilities of ICT tools for searching, annotation and analysis of audio-visual media / Adam T. Lindsay -- Audio tools for music discovery / Michael Casey -- What was the question? : music analysis and the computer / Alan Marsden 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. This volume highlights the breadth and inter-disciplinary nature of the subject, providing a valuable resource to technologists, musicologists, musicians and music educators. Written by leading experts, this volume provides both a picture of the realities of how ICT is currently being used in musicology as well as prospects and proposals for how it could be fruitfully used in the future