Musicology for the Masses

大众音乐学

• 批准号: EP/I001832/1
• 负责人: Simon Dixon
• 金额: $ 31.87万
• 依托单位: Queen Mary University of London
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Research Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2010 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FI001832%2F1
• 关键词: Musicology; Masses

Music is both a cultural asset and an important commodity in the digitaleconomy. It is enjoyed by expert and novice alike, but its complexity andreal-time nature make it difficult for listeners to fully understand andappreciate the content of a musical recording. This proposal is predicated onthe assumption that the vast majority of music consumers, professional andamateur alike, want to know more, but the tools and services they routinelyaccess are incapable of helping them. The tools and services that the Centre forDigital Music has been researching for several years can fulfill this demand,given the appropriate interaction with users.This proposal therefore sets up scenarios to examine how people's relationshipwith music is changed by using new technologies, enabling us to understand howto bridge the gap from laboratory curiosity to the mainstream market.Underpinning this proposal are the new technologies associated with metadata --in particular, Semantic Metadata. These have the potential to change thelandscape for music (and indeed other media types) in all areas from creation toconsumption. By changing how users interact with music, this proposal will shedlight on new business models for the music industry.The British Library (BL) has a catalogue of 3.5 million soundrecordings, approximately half of which are in a digital format,including many unique historic items, which visitors can listen toin the Library's Reading Rooms while taking notes with paper and pencil. No tools areprovided in the Reading Rooms, and the data can not be taken off site due to copyrightregulations. The current situation hinders contemporary research, which aims tocomplement listeners' impressions with precise measurements of musical features.User feedback regarding deployment of analysis and visualisation tools at the BL,undertaken as a preliminary study to inform this proposal, indicated thepotential to transform musicology research.Such tools must however be carefully tailored to meet the data securityrequirements of the BL.Our software tools have a broader application than to expert musicologists.Hobby musicians and music lovers can also benefit from our music analysis,search and visualisation software. The most likely market is younger people, sowe also target school music students as a first step towards reaching young peoplein general. Our relationship with schools will help penetrate the market, asyoung people inevitably spread the word (probably using Facebook) on cool new stuff to enjoy music with, as well as help evaluate the potentialfor a business model for Sonic Visualiser, based on music education.The BBC's relatively new www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing site hasacquired over 34,000 music tracks in the astonishingly short period of 11months. New bands are invited to upload their songs. Added to this, thecollection contains many video recordings from BBC-sponsored concerts.Everything is accompanied by high quality metadata, much of it using theMusic Ontology that the Centre for Digital Music pioneered. New bands willbenefit from interacting with ananalysis of their songs, and on-line users will benefit from new ways tonavigate through this exciting collection, while simultaneously understandingmore about what goes into the music.

音乐既是一种文化资产，也是数字经济中的重要商品。专家和新手都喜欢听，但它的复杂性和实时性使听众很难完全理解和欣赏音乐录音的内容。这个提议是基于这样一个假设，即绝大多数音乐消费者，无论是专业人士还是业余爱好者，都想知道更多，但他们所使用的工具和服务却无法帮助他们。数字音乐中心多年来一直在研究的工具和服务可以满足这一需求，只要与用户进行适当的互动。因此，本提案设置了一些场景，以研究人们与音乐的关系如何通过使用新技术而改变，使我们能够理解如何弥合从实验室好奇到主流市场的差距。支持这一提议的是与元数据相关的新技术--尤其是语义元数据。这些都有可能在从创作到消费的所有领域改变音乐（以及其他媒体类型）的景观。通过改变用户与音乐的互动方式，这一提议将为音乐产业的新商业模式提供启示。大英图书馆（BL）拥有350万份录音目录，其中约一半是数字格式，包括许多独特的历史物品，游客可以在图书馆的阅读室一边听录音，一边用纸和笔做笔记。阅读室不提供任何工具，并且由于版权规定，数据不能带离现场。目前的情况阻碍了当代研究，其目的是通过对音乐特征的精确测量来补充听众的印象。关于在BL部署分析和可视化工具的用户反馈，作为一项初步研究，为这一建议提供信息，这表明了音乐学研究转型的潜力。然而，这些工具必须经过精心定制，以满足BL的数据安全要求。我们的软件工具具有更广泛的爱好音乐的音乐家和音乐爱好者也可以从我们的音乐分析、搜索和可视化软件中受益。最有可能的市场是年轻人，所以我们也瞄准了学校的音乐学生，作为接触一般年轻人的第一步。我们与学校的关系将有助于渗透市场，因为年轻人不可避免地会传播（可能会使用Facebook）关于享受音乐的酷新东西的信息，同时也有助于评估基于音乐教育的Sonic Visualiser商业模式的潜力。BBC相对较新的www.bbc.co.uk/music/introducing网站在短短11个月内获得了34，000多首音乐曲目。新乐队被邀请上传他们的歌曲。除此之外，该集合还包含许多来自BBC赞助的音乐会的视频记录。所有内容都附有高质量的元数据，其中大部分使用了数字音乐中心开创的音乐本体。新乐队将受益于与他们的歌曲分析互动，在线用户将受益于浏览这一令人兴奋的收藏的新方法，同时了解更多关于音乐的内容。

项目成果

Exploring Music Contents

探索音乐内容

• DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23126-1_10
• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Barthet M

Music recommendation for music learning: Hotttabs, a multimedia guitar tutor

音乐学习音乐推荐：Hotttabs，多媒体吉他导师

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Barthet, M.

Ethnographic Observations of Musicologists at the British Library: Implications for Music Information Retrieval

大英图书馆音乐学家的民族志观察：对音乐信息检索的启示

• 发表时间: 2011
• 作者: Mathieu Barthet

Two Web Applications for Exploring Melodic Patterns in Jazz Solos

用于探索爵士乐独奏旋律模式的两个 Web 应用程序

• 发表时间: 2018
• 作者: K. Frieler

MIR in School? Lessons from Ethnographic Observation of Secondary School Music Classes

米尔在学校吗？

• 作者: Dan Stowell (Co-Author)