Writing a Big Data history of music
Writing a Big Data history of music
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书写大数据音乐史
作者：
Rose S
本文介绍了“大数据音乐史”项目，该项目旨在解锁研究型图书馆持有的书目数据，为音乐学家创造新的研究机会。该项目清理和增强了大英图书馆印刷和手稿音乐目录的各个方面，这些目录现在可以作为开放数据使用。它还试验了对大英图书馆数据集和RISM印刷和手稿音乐目录的分析和可视化。这篇文章展示了对这些数据集的定量分析如何揭示长期的历史趋势，比如16世纪和17世纪欧洲音乐印刷的兴衰。数据分析和可视化还有助于研究特定作曲家的传播和规范化（如对帕莱斯特里纳和珀塞尔的案例研究所示），以及音乐中流派、评分和种族色彩的变化趋势（如对“苏格兰”音乐的案例研究所示）。
This article introduces the project A Big Data History of Music, which set out to unlock the bibliographical data held by research libraries in order to create new research opportunities for musicologists. The project cleaned and enhanced aspects of the British Library catalogues of printed and manuscript music, which are now available as open data. It also experimented with the analysis and visualization of the British Library datasets and the RISM inventories of printed and manuscript music. The article shows how quantitative analysis of these datasets can expose long-term historical trends, such as the rise and fall of music printing in 16th- and 17th-century Europe. Data analysis and visualization also facilitates research on the dissemination and canonization of specific composers (as shown by case-studies on Palestrina and Purcell) and on changing trends in genres, scoring and ethnic colourings in music (as shown by a case-study on ‘Scottish’ music).