The Communication Between Musicology and Digital Libraries in Particular for Contemporary Music

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Abstract

Musicology is a relatively recent discipline that borrows from other disciplines as acoustics, psychology, philology, sociology, anthropology, and library science, the methods, techniques, and terminology, so it is seen as a deeply interdisciplinary discipline. However the musicologist is simultaneously a listener and a composer, since analysing a musical piece implies "rewriting" it. This is particularly difficult for contemporary music, since this kind of music does not rely only in the score. Contemporary music may involve several components as scores, scripts (containing scenic elements or other specific indications), audio, slides, texts, or other documentation. In order to complete the analysis of a contemporary music work, the musicologist needs to access several tools from Digital Libraries: graphical representations (scores, sonograms, or formal schemes); audio or symbolic representations (MIDI, computerized description of the score, and so forth). Digital Libraries provide musicologists with knowledge from bibliographical references, scores, or audio, but do not cover the musicologist purpose, since the information is still not systematic, so the communication system should be improved. Digital Libraries, through virtual collaborative spaces, should combine, inquire, store, and re-use different knowledge representations, this would help not only musicologists, but also the research community, aiming to enrich their scientific communication. In this paper we will address some music-theatre works that include tape recordings, composed by Constança Capdeville, whose collection is currently stored at the Portuguese National Library, aiming to understand what documentation strategy do we need to develop/adapt to improve their access, so that such works can be represented again.
Original languageEnglish
Publication statusPublished - 15 Nov 2018
EventBISA 2018 - British & Irish Sound Archives conference 2018 - National Library of Wales, Aberysthwyth, United Kingdom
Duration: 16 Nov 201817 Nov 2018
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Conference

ConferenceBISA 2018 - British & Irish Sound Archives conference 2018
Abbreviated titleBISA 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CityAberysthwyth
Period16/11/1817/11/18
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Keywords

  • Digital Libraries
  • Contemporary Music
  • Musicology
  • Scientific Communication
  • Documentation
  • Constança Capdeville

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