Making the music of the Wode Psalter widely accessible through web-based performing editions and a recording.

通过基于网络的表演版本和录音，使《沃德诗篇》的音乐得以广泛传播。

• 批准号: AH/K001809/1
• 负责人: Noel O'Regan
• 金额: $ 12.22万
• 依托单位: University of Edinburgh
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2012 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FK001809%2F1
• 关键词: Making; music; Wode; Psalter; widely

The original AHRC-funded project, 'The World of Reformation Britain: seen and heard in the Wode Psalter', has been highly successful in achieving its objectives. What was not anticipated at the time of planning that project - which centred on exhibiting the partbooks and telling their story - was that there would be considerable interest by performers, both singers and instrumentalists, in getting access to a broader selection of the music contained in the Wode partbooks in modern format and notation. Since much of this music is potentially performable by amateur and professional groups, the most significant obstacle to its inclusion in modern repertories remains the original notation and partbook format (one voice part per book rather than all voices printed together). Although some of the Psalter's music has been printed over the past fifty years, this has been sporadic and, almost exclusively, in scholarly collected editions such as vol. xv of the Musica Britannica series. While a modern edition was made of some of the music in preparation for the recording and concerts organised as part of the original project, this is not currently available to the singing and playing public, nor was it envisaged that it would be. The proposed follow-on project will seek to satisfy this demand by providing free access to a broad selection of the music contained in the Wode partbooks. The target audiences for this will include professional and amateur choirs (including church choirs), professional and amateur instrumental groups (in particular those regularly performing early music), school choirs and instrumental groups. Through the activities of these groups the music in the partbooks will further be made available to a much wider public including concert-goers, church congregations, school and higher-education level students. The partbooks contain a wealth of music of different types which was known and performed in Medieval and early modern Scotland. The project proposes to transcribe and edit for easy modern performance all of the metrical psalms, hymns and canticles arranged by Scottish composers, as well as motets, anthems and instrumental music by Scottish and continental composers copied by Thomas Wode. This music is an important part of Scotland's musical heritage, whose relative inaccessibility has caused its neglect. Well-researched entries for the Scottish composers involved will also be prepared for Wikipedia.In order to maximise accessibility the project proposes to make the musical editions freely available through specific websites, rather than through a printed edition. Music is increasingly being made available through such websites and to do so for a repertory such as this represents an innovative and creative response to the challenges of marketing printed music. By using a website, rather than paper publication, the international scope of the project will also be enhanced. This will represent an innovative departure for early Scottish music and will allow it to reach a much wider audience than hitherto. Web-based plug-ins such as 'Scorch' will allow users to see and hear the music before printing it, as well as allowing performers to hear a playback of individual parts. The software will also allow transposition to fit the abilities of particular performing groups. A recording of a substantial selection of the music edited will be made by the specialist and highly-prized Scottish early music group, The Dunedin Consort, and made available both as a commercial CD and a download, in order to demonstrate the music and disseminate good practice in its performance. The bundling together of the modern music edition, the recording, and the digital images from the partbooks which will be available on the Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music will provide a unique resource not hitherto available for this highly-important repertory.

最初由AHRC资助的项目“改革英国的世界：在Wode Psalter中看到和听到”，在实现其目标方面取得了极大的成功。在计划该项目时，没有预料到的是，表演者，包括歌手和器乐演奏家，会对获得Wode Partbook中包含的现代格式和符号的更广泛选择的音乐产生相当大的兴趣。由于这种音乐的大部分可能由业余和专业团体演奏，因此将其纳入现代曲目的最大障碍仍然是原始的符号和部分本格式(每本书只有一个声音部分，而不是所有的声音都印刷在一起)。尽管《诗篇》的一些音乐在过去的五十年里已经印刷出来了，但这些都是零星的，而且几乎完全是在学术合集的版本中，比如第一卷。《大英音乐剧》系列的第十五集。虽然一些音乐的现代版本是为了准备作为原始项目的一部分而组织的录音和音乐会，但目前歌唱和演奏公众无法获得这些音乐，也没有想到会这样。拟议的后续项目将设法满足这一需求，免费提供WODE部分手册中所载的各种音乐选择。其目标受众将包括专业和业余合唱团(包括教堂合唱团)、专业和业余器乐团体(特别是那些经常演奏早期音乐的团体)、学校合唱团和器乐团体。通过这些团体的活动，配乐本中的音乐将进一步向更广泛的公众提供，包括音乐会观众、教堂会众、学校和高等教育水平的学生。这些小本包含了丰富的不同类型的音乐，这些音乐是中世纪和早期现代苏格兰人知道和演奏的。该项目建议转录和编辑苏格兰作曲家改编的所有韵律诗篇、赞美诗和赞美诗，以及由托马斯·沃德抄袭的苏格兰和大陆作曲家的颂歌、赞美诗和器乐，以便于现代表演。这种音乐是苏格兰音乐遗产的重要组成部分，由于其相对难以接近而被忽视。经过充分研究的苏格兰作曲家的作品也将为维基百科准备。为了最大限度地提高可访问性，该项目建议通过特定网站免费提供音乐版本，而不是通过印刷版。越来越多的人通过这样的网站提供音乐，这样做是对销售印刷音乐的挑战的创新和创造性的回应。通过使用网站而不是纸质出版物，项目的国际范围也将得到加强。这将代表着早期苏格兰音乐的创新之旅，并将使其能够接触到比以往更广泛的观众。像Scorch这样的基于网络的插件将允许用户在打印音乐之前看到和听到音乐，并允许表演者听到个别部分的回放。该软件还将允许换位，以适应特定表演团体的能力。专业和备受推崇的苏格兰早期音乐团体达尼丁管弦乐团将录制大量精选的编辑音乐，并以商业CD和下载的形式提供，以展示音乐并传播其表演中的良好做法。将现代音乐版本、录音和部分书籍中的数字图像捆绑在一起，将可在中世纪音乐数字图像档案馆获得，这将为这一极其重要的曲目提供迄今为止不可用的独特资源。