Musicology for the Masses

音乐既是一种文化资产，也是数字经济中的一种重要商品。专家和新手都喜欢它，但它的复杂性和实时性使听众很难充分理解和欣赏音乐录音的内容。这一提议是基于这样一种假设，即绝大多数音乐消费者，无论是专业的还是业余的，都想知道更多，但他们经常获得的工具和服务无法帮助他们。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，因为与用户进行了适当的互动。因此，这项建议建立了一些场景，研究如何使用新技术改变人们与音乐的关系，使我们能够了解如何弥合实验室的好奇心与主流市场的差距。支持这项建议的是与元数据相关的新技术--特别是语义元数据。这些都有可能改变音乐(甚至其他媒体类型)从创作到消费的各个领域的格局。通过改变用户与音乐互动的方式，这项提议将揭示音乐产业的新商业模式。大英图书馆拥有350万份录音目录，其中大约一半是数字格式的，包括许多独特的历史物品，游客可以在图书馆的阅览室里用纸和笔做笔记来听。阅览室不提供任何工具，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，其目的是用音乐特征的精确测量来补充听众的印象。用户反馈关于在BL部署分析和可视化工具的反馈，作为对这一建议的初步研究，表明了改变音乐学研究的潜力。然而，这些工具必须仔细定制，以满足BL的数据安全要求。我们的软件工具的应用比专业音乐学家更广泛。业余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，因此我们也以学校音乐学生为目标，作为接触年轻人的第一步。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在酷的新东西上传播消息(可能是使用Facebook)来享受音乐，并帮助评估Sonic Visualiser基于音乐教育的商业模式的潜力。BBC相对较新的www.bbc.co.uk/Music/Introting网站在令人惊讶的11个月内获得了超过3.4万首音乐曲目。新的乐队被邀请上传他们的歌曲。除此之外，该集合还包含许多BBC赞助的音乐会的视频记录。每一件事都伴随着高质量的元数据，其中大部分使用了数字音乐中心首创的音乐本体论。新的乐队将受益于与他们的歌曲的分析互动，在线用户将受益于通过这些令人兴奋的集合来导航的新方法，同时也将更多地了解音乐中的内容。

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.