• The Encoded Medieval Antiphoner: An Open Access Digital Source for Music and Liturgical Pedagogy and Scholarship

    Author(s):
    Anna Kijas (see profile)
    Date:
    2018
    Group(s):
    Open Music
    Subject(s):
    Twelfth century, Thirteenth century, Fourteenth century, Digital humanities, Music, Middle Ages, Musicology
    Item Type:
    Presentation
    Meeting Title:
    Digital Humanities 2016
    Meeting Org.:
    ADHO
    Meeting Loc.:
    Kraków, Poland
    Meeting Date:
    July 13, 2016
    Tag(s):
    DH2016, workflow, 11th to 14th century, Medieval music, Digital musicology
    Permanent URL:
    http://dx.doi.org/10.17613/M68R3B
    Abstract:
    This poster will provide an overview of the development of an open-access digital musicology project, The Encoded Medieval Antiphoner: an Open Access Digital Source for Music and Liturgical Scholarship at Boston College. This is a collaborative project between the Digital Scholarship Group and library staff at the Boston College University Libraries, musicologist Dr. Michael Noone, research assistants, and several external partners, including CANTUS database staff. In the summer of 2015 we began encoding a 14 th century Franciscan Antiphoner using the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI), as well as developing an open-access site to present the manuscript as an interactive object for research and scholarly use. The original Antiphoner is in manuscript form bound between leather-covered boards containing 119 parchment folios with text and notation for antiphons and responsories for the entire annual calendar of saints’ days (sanctorale). This poster will explain our process and workflows, which have involved transcribing and encoding over 1500 musical incipits, texts, and metadata, contributing the data to the CANTUS database, a highly-respected digital archive and index of chants, as well as, implementing open-source software for a presentation layer and search/retrieval of the content. The digitized object will be presented using Diva.js an open-source software that connects with the API of the CANTUS database to pull in metadata, transcribed music notation, and bibliographic data that we have contributed to this database. We will also present a variety of functionality options that will make this Antiphoner interactive. Additionally, this poster will highlight the collaborative aspect of this project and several positive outcomes, such as an interest to investigate rendering neume notation using Verovio rather than Volpiano font. Verovio is a software that renders MEI directly in a modern browser as SVG (scalable vector graphics: XML-based vector image format).
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