Digital directions for collected editions: keyboard music by British musicians before c.1700

收藏版本的数字说明：约 1700 年之前英国音乐家的键盘音乐

• 批准号: AH/V015095/1
• 负责人: David Smith
• 金额: $ 4.36万
• 依托单位: Northumbria University
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FV015095%2F1
• 关键词: Digital; directions; collected; editions; keyboard

In the 19th and 20th centuries collected editions made music accessible by gathering all works by a single composer or by creating a series defined by time or place. Each volume resulted from rigorous scholarship, providing reliable musical texts based on all known, available sources. The editorial boards of Musica Britannica, the Purcell Society Edition and Early English Church Music have been deliberating over the future of scholarly, critical editing of music in the 21st century. Collected editions have been designed with the performer in mind as well as the scholar: in the case of Musica Britannica, 'although its chief purpose is an accurate and scholarly presentation of the original texts, it is also intended to provide a basis for practical performance'. Today, scholars, students and players expect to find material for research and study online, so sometimes sacrifice consideration of the quality of an edition and the scholarly work it represents in favour of ease and speed of access. In an era of 'fake news', it is important to return to the main rationale for the collected edition: the provision of reliable, scholarly, critical editions of musical texts. In the digital age, collected editions remain relatively difficult to access for many users, such as amateur performers, since they are restricted to the reference shelves of university libraries, so there is a need to reconsider, revitalise and renew the role of the collected edition for the present day. This project draws together musicologists specialising in the critical editing of music with experts in music technology and computer science to address the future of the collected edition within an online environment. As well as establishing new methodologies, it explores how the next generation can be equipped with the skillset needed by 21st-century editors of music. Recent research projects have resulted in significant technological advances that can be harnessed for a 21st- century digital platform for the collected edition in which advanced editorial expertise is combined with possibilities opened up by the encoding of musical texts. The project will determine how to design such an environment so that it can be accessed easily by a range of users, thus achieving impact beyond the academy. The project will also address related questions such as copyright, future funding models and marketing.All three series include keyboard music, the focus of this project. The paucity of autograph manuscripts of repertoire dating from before c.1700 throws the emphasis on the scribes who entered the music into their manuscripts, and the degree of variance between sources raises questions surrounding the instability of texts and their relation to aural transmission and creative engagement with the music. Much of this repertoire dates from a period when the conventions surrounding the notation of the music were in a state of transition. This lack of standardisation, and debates surrounding the relationships between visual appearance of the music and the ways in which it was performed, provide greater challenges to the editor than do other genres. Thus, the solutions to specific challenges surrounding early keyboard music should be adaptable to other genres at other periods. One of the aims of the project will be to show how the digital humanities can transform the collected edition by retaining each surviving text, enhancing the way in which information about variant readings can be displayed using music notation. The encoding of each variant text allows a three-dimensional approach to editing music, where the scribes and users of manuscripts can be placed at the heart of the project alongside named composers. Even more exciting, the encoded variant texts can be analysed using machine learning to address questions of authorship, to evaluate stemmatic relations between sources (especially where there are missing links), and to study scribal interference with texts.

在 19 世纪和 20 世纪，精选版本通过收集单个作曲家的所有作品或创建按时间或地点定义的系列来使音乐变得易于理解。每卷都源自严格的学术研究，根据所有已知的可用资源提供可靠的音乐文本。 Musica Britannica、Purcell Society Edition 和 Early English Church Music 的编辑委员会一直在思考 21 世纪学术性、批判性音乐编辑的未来。精选版本的设计既考虑了表演者，也考虑了学者：就《大英音乐》而言，“虽然其主要目的是对原始文本进行准确和学术的呈现，但它也旨在为实际表演提供基础”。如今，学者、学生和玩家希望在网上找到用于研究和学习的材料，因此有时会牺牲对版本质量及其所代表的学术著作的考虑，以支持访问的便捷性和速度。在“假新闻”盛行的时代，重要的是回到合集版的主要理由：提供可靠的、学术性的、批判性的音乐文本版本。在数字时代，对于许多用户（例如业余表演者）来说，收藏版本仍然相对难以访问，因为它们仅限于大学图书馆的参考书架，因此有必要重新考虑、振兴和更新收藏版本在当今的角色。该项目汇集了专门从事音乐批判性编辑的音乐学家以及音乐技术和计算机科学专家，以解决在线环境中收藏版本的未来问题。除了建立新的方法论之外，它还探讨了如何让下一代具备 21 世纪音乐编辑所需的技能。最近的研究项目取得了重大技术进步，可用于 21 世纪合集数字平台，其中先进的编辑专业知识与音乐文本编码所带来的可能性相结合。该项目将确定如何设计这样一个环境，以便一系列用户可以轻松访问它，从而实现学院之外的影响。该项目还将解决版权、未来融资模式和营销等相关问题。所有三个系列都包括键盘音乐，这是该项目的重点。约 1700 年之前曲目的亲笔手稿十分匮乏，这使得人们将重点放在将音乐写入手稿的抄写员身上，而来源之间的差异程度引发了围绕文本的不稳定性及其与听觉传播和与音乐的创造性参与的关系的问题。这些曲目大部分可以追溯到音乐记谱惯例处于过渡状态的时期。与其他流派相比，标准化的缺乏以及围绕音乐的视觉外观与其演奏方式之间关系的争论给编辑带来了更大的挑战。因此，针对早期键盘音乐特定挑战的解决方案应该适用于其他时期的其他流派。该项目的目标之一是展示数字人文如何通过保留每个幸存的文本来改变收集的版本，增强使用音乐符号显示有关不同阅读的信息的方式。每个变体文本的编码允许采用三维方法来编辑音乐，其中抄写员和手稿的使用者可以与指定的作曲家一起置于项目的核心。更令人兴奋的是，可以使用机器学习来分析编码的变体文本，以解决作者身份问题，评估来源之间的词干关系（尤其是缺少链接的地方），并研究抄写对文本的干扰。

项目成果

Digital Directions for Collected Editions

收藏版的数字说明

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Smith Dj

Digital directions for collected editions: keyboard music by British musicians before c.1700

收藏版本的数字说明：约 1700 年之前英国音乐家的键盘音乐

• 发表时间: 2021
• 作者: Smith Dj