Beethoven in the House: Digital Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements

《贝多芬在家中》包含了对19世纪国内音乐编曲的两项新颖而互补的研究，一个将与研究共同开发的数字研究环境，以及在此环境中数字音乐学方法的创新应用。在录音和广播出现之前，在家里演奏音乐是大多数作品被接受的方式，然而，形成我们对这种文化的主要记录的符号来源还没有被全面或系统地研究过。编曲家为国内消费改编音乐所做的选择——乐器、缩写或简化——反映了19世纪的音乐生活，并可以与报纸、广告和日记等当代记录一起告知我们的理解。对施泰纳版贝多芬第七和第八交响曲和惠灵顿西格的研究将对编曲进行详细的比较，系统地确定多个版本的共同核心，并询问这是否反映了出版商的声明价值。第二项调查在更大的样本中寻找不太为人所知和分类不佳的乐谱的模式，在国内市场（当时的音乐产业）的叙述中整理编曲者动机的新指标。这两项研究都创新了数字方法，将编曲作为音乐编码的特征，包括新的“稀疏”方法来标记和注释。光学音乐识别和关联数据将发现并构建新的知识。结果将使用音乐学论证的本体论进行数字表示，为数字音乐学提供可重用的方法和研究数据，并为更广泛的数字人文学科提供信息。来自德国和英国的主要专家和机构将首次与两国的联合收藏合作。为此，他们将共同改变各自数字音乐学领域的方法和工具。

Beethoven in the House encompasses two novel and complementary studies into domestic music arrangements of the 19th Century, a digital research environment which will be co-developed alongside the studies, and the innovative application of digital musicology methods within this environment.Performance of music in the home was the means by which most works were received before the advent of audio recordings and broadcasts, yet the notation sources that form our primary record of this culture have not been the subject of comprehensive or methodical study. Choices made by arrangers adapting music for domestic consumption-of instrumentation, abbreviation, or simplification-reflect the musical life of the 19th-century, and can inform our understanding alongside contemporary accounts such as newspapers, adverts, and diaries.A study of Steiner editions of Beethoven's 7th and 8th Symphonies and Wellingtons Sieg will make a detailed comparison between arrangements, systematically identifying a core common to multiple versions, and asking if this reflects the stated values of the publisher. A second survey seeks patterns across a larger sample of lesser-known and poorly catalogued scores, collating emergent indicators of arrangers' motivations within a narrative of the domestic market - the music industry of its day. Both studies innovate digital methods which characterise arrangements as music encodings, including new 'sparse' approaches to notation and annotation. Optical Music Recognition and Linked Data will find and structure new knowledge. Results will be digitally represented using an ontology of musicological argument, providing reusable methods and research data for digital musicology, as well as informing the wider digital humanities.Leading experts and institutions from Germany and the UK will work together with combined collections from both countries for the first time. Doing so, they will jointly transform methods and tools in their field of digital musicology.