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Phase Two Initiative "Developing the infrastructure for a distributed e-library of medieval music transcriptions in standardised format." Funding Agency The Eduserv Foundation Project Co-ordinator Prof. Peter G. Jeavons Professor of Computer Science, University of Oxford; Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford Software Engineer Prof. Louis W. G. Barton St Anne's College, University of Oxford Domain Expert Prof. John A. Caldwell Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Oxford; Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford Advisory Board • Prof. Dino Buzzetti Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia, Università di Bologna • Prof. Jim Davies Director, Software Engineering Centre, University of Oxford • Dr Annalisa Doneda Facoltà di Musicologia, Università di Pavia • Prof. James N. Grier Faculty of Music, University of Western Ontario • Rev. Dr Constantine J. Terzopoulos Monastery of Holy Trinity, St Nektarios, Aegina (Greece) Technical Team Dr Jacqueline Elemans Dr Debra Lacoste Koon Shan Barry Ng Adjunct Technical Help Dr Maria Alexandru Hans Bickel Samuel H. Byland Dr David Halperin Dr Jeni Tennison Mark Watson |
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Motivations The thousands of medieval manuscripts
containing musical notation are among the monuments of Western culture. Their study, over many generations, has allowed
scholars to retrace the foundations and the development of Western music and have contributed to many scholarly disciplines.These documents are best studied comparatively, and much work has been done in this area. But comparison is limited by the varieties and styles of musical notation which, although they have basic conceptual elements in common, vary enormously in detail, and as to what information is transmitted. The detailed comparative study that digital transcription will allow, will permit highly important insights into the nature and development of medieval music which are not possible at present. Many of the comparative operations that have become increasing possible and increasing important with computer-aided methods, are hampered by the intractability of neumes with respect to modern musical notation. Clearly, our methods of comparison and description remain woefully inadequate, and we still lack the tools for comparison and description that we might wish in order to be 'scientific'. – Thomas Forrest Kelly |
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Goals "NEUMES" is an acronym for
Neumed & Ekphonetic Universal Manuscript Encoding Standard.The purpose of the Project is to design and build a software infrastructure for digital transcription and description of medieval chant manuscripts. The goal is a uniform means by which the content of manuscripts can be viewed, searched, and analyzed by computer. The Phase One initiative has realized important progress toward an effective data representation for neumed chant, such that: (a) melodic patterns can be compared across all types of Western and Eastern neume notation; (b) a diplomatic facsimile of a source can be derived from the data; (c) hyperlinks tie transcriptions to images, database indexes, or other online content; and (d) large sets of online transcriptions will be searchable with computational efficiency. Our work has focused on resolution of basic technical problems and 'boundary conditions' of early types of notation. Results include the NEUMES taxonomy and the NeumesXML Schema. Phase Two will continue to expand and refine the data representation, improve our software for data-entry and visualization, and work on melodic pattern matching. – Louis W. G. Barton |
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Supported by Eduserv. Phase Two of The NEUMES Project is funded by a Research Grant awarded to the University of Oxford by the Eduserv Foundation ["Developing the infrastructure for a distributed e-library of medieval music transcriptions in standardised format"; March 2005 - August 2007 (extended to February 2008); Prof. Peter G. Jeavons, Project Co-Ordinator]. | |||
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Phase One of The NEUMES Project was funded by a Scholarly Communications Grant awarded to Harvard University by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation ["Digital Encoding for Medieval Chant Transcription; Phase One Project"; October 2001 - March 2003; Prof. Thomas Forrest Kelly, Principal Investigator]. | |||
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