Repositories of
Musical Data and Scores
Symbolic Data =
Data for notation
Data for musical analysis
Data used in layered applications
 Pedagogy
 Analytical markup
 Music perception
 Music cognition
 Electro-acoustic music
Applications here representative, not
exhaustive
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Common Music Notation (CMN)
(music from Common Practice Period)
Assumptions
…and (but)….
 Large body of classical and
popular music
 ____confined to limited
symbolic sets
 No market for special
notation
 ____only affects a few small
repertories
 Can’t accommodate
 non-Western music
 ____not important because
there is so much in the core
repertories
 Early music
 Recent music
Core of CMN elusive
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Writing systems outside CMN
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Writing systems inside CMN?
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Grace notes
Ornaments
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Cadenzas
Transposing Inst.
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Tremolandi
Unusual symbols
Irreg. meters
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17th c.
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19th c.
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Inside Common Western Notation?
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Drum
Guitar
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Da capos
Irreg Meters
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Symbols
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Lead sheet
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Film music
Jazz
Sacred music
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Folk music
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Repository Types
(1) Image archives
(2) Edition-based archives
(3) Musical-data archives
(4) Music-bibliographical archives
(5) Collection-based archives
(6) Cultural-heritage archives
(7) Collaborative projects
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Repository Types
 (1) Image archives
 Images only
 Enhanced image
 Images with extensive metadata
 Images with stored symbolic data
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Edition-based archives
Musical data archives
Music-bibliography archives
Collection-based archives
Cultural-heritage archives
Collaborative projects
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Images only
(a) U. of Chicago Library,
Chopin Op. 61
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(b) Beethoven-Haus, Bonn
Op. 132, sketch
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Turin National Library
Vivaldi Cantata (Lo-res)
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Vivaldi cantata,(Hi-res)
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University of North Texas:
Virtual Rare-Book Music Room
•About 100 scan collections for long works, mainly operas, 17-19th centuries
•High-quality images suitable for research
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British Library, Music Division
Purcell |
Handel
W. F. Bach 
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Enhanced images
Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music (DIAMM)
DIAMM
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Magnification*
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Images with extensive metadata
Recording server
Variations 3 (Indiana U.):
Brahms’s Academic Fest. Ov.
Score server
Tools for music theory
Metadata*
“container” concept
FRBR
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Images with (some) stored symbolic data
Levy (Civil War) Sheet Music
Coll., Johns Hopkins U.*
Guido Music Notation
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Bavarian State Library,
Munich (Vifamusik Project)*
Several parallel formats
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Repository Types
 Image archives
 Edition-based archives
 Replication of printed edition with critical notes
 Electronic edition
 Electronic apparatus for created new printed/virtual edition
 Viewable edition with sound playback
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Musical data archives
Music-bibliography archives
Collection-based archives
Cultural-heritage archives
Collaborative projects
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Digital replication of printed editions
Neue Mozart Ausgabe
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Salzburg Mozarteum
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Electronic apparatus for new
editions
EDIROM Project, Prague:
EDIROM Project, U. Detmold:
CM v. Weber
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Dvorak Edition
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“Born digital” editions
Werner Icking Music Library
Web Library of Seventeenth-Century
Music (Duke U.)
Introduction, critical notes, editorial indications
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Marini: Sonata variata from Op. 8 (1629)
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Repository Types
Image archives
Edition-based archives
Musical data archives
For teaching
For performance
For research
Music-bibliography archives
Collection-based archives
Cultural-heritage archives
Collaborative projects
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Data Archives for Performers (Collaborative
Projects)
Choral Public Domain
Library (CPDL)
Werner Icking Music Archive
(WIMA)
 Formats
 Formats
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Finale
Sibelius
MIDI
PDF (Finale, Sibelius), *.ps
MUP
 Features
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Wiki format
Text translations (> 3,000)
>9700 pp.
Score and composer catalogs
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MusiXTeX (*.ps)
Finale
PDF (Finale, capella)
mp3
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Almost 500 composers
Apparatus for revisions
Identification of sw versions
Performing parts
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Data archives for performers
Werner Icking Archive (WIMA)
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Choral Public Domain Library
(CPDL)
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Data archives for research
MuseData
KernScores
 c. 1,200 encoded full scores
 Repertories:
 17-19th
centuries
 Mainly orchestra,
chamber, opera, oratorio
 File types
 Raw MuseData (edited and
verified)
 Kern
 MIDI (two versions)
 SCORE
 PDF
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 c. 1,000 encoded full scores
 Repertories:
 15th-early 20th centuries
 Mainly keyboard
 File types
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Kern
MIDI
PDF
On-the-fly
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 Guido Music Notation
 Piano-roll files
 Keyscapes (graphical
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Data archives for research: MuseData
 Main strength
 Multi-format consistency:
 data content matches
across formats
 data content matches
between score and parts
 Repertories with PDFs
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Bach, J.S.: WTC I, II; Chorales
Beethoven: 6 symphonies
Haydn: 12 symphonies
Vivaldi: 12 concertos
When consistency matters
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Data archives for research:Beethoven’s
KernScores*
Fifth Symphony (beginning)
Kern: piano rolls
Kern: visual harmonic analyses
Green = left hand
Seeing
Red = downbeat
Hearing
(a) By pitch and duration
(a) Without repeats; (b) with repeats
(b) By metrical accent
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Repository Types
Image archives
Edition-based archives
Musical data archives
Music-bibliography archives
For metadata
For cross-reference
Collection-based archives
Cultural-heritage archives
Collaborative projects
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RISM Interface Dialects
RISM-UK
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RISM-CH
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More RISM,
Themefinder
RISM-Italy
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RISM-US
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Repository Types
Image archives
Edition-based archives
Musical data archives
Music-bibliography archives
Collection-based archives
Cultural-heritage archives
Collaborative projects
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Bayerische Staatsbibliothek
(Vifamusik)*
Edition Reprints: G. F.
Händel (Chrysander)
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Early prints and MSS
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Ricordi Archive (Milan)
Respighi: Pines of Rome
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Paganini Capriccio
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Repository Types
Image archives
Edition-based archives
Musical data archives
Music-bibliography archives
Collection-based archives
Cultural-heritage archives
Collaborative projects
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Cultural Heritage
Library of Congress—American Memory
Aaron Copland, 1908-1918
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Aaron Copland, 1965
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Repository Types
Image archives
Edition-based archives
Musical data archives
Music-bibliography archives
Collection-based archives
Cultural-heritage archives
Collaborative projects
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Collaborative Projects: MIDI-based
(Die) Kunst der Fuge
Classical MIDI Archive
 16,500 classical MIDI files
 PDF sheet music (<8000
scanned pp from 171 books)
 Mainly piano, Romantic era,
Russian, Bach, anything out of
copyright
 Some quality-of-performance
IDs
 >40,000 files by >2,000
composers
 Multiple performances of some
items
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Collaborative, non-MIDI projects
Aruspix scanning*
IMSLP
 Scan (Aruspix) to Wolfgang
 PDF (bit-mapped) archive
 Notation software optimized for
16th-17th centuries
 Projects
 Geneva University
 McGill University
 Marenzio edition
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 User-contributed
 Claim 20,000 PDF scores (many
restrictions due to copyright*)
 c. 1,200 composers
 Repertory: mainly 19th-century
orchestral, Russian and Polish
chamber music and songs
 Operates under Canadian
copyright provisions
 Linked (off-and-on) to Project
Gutenberg
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Collaborative, non-MIDI
 Notation-software sharing sites (aided by viewers)
 Finale
 Sibelius
 Free-agent sites
 Gordon Callon’s web sites (Acadia U.)
 Baroque
 Teaching pieces
 Canadian traditional music
 Alain Naigeon (France)
 Mainly Renaissance
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Mutopia
OS: Linux
Typesetting software: Lilypond
Other formats: MIDI, PDF
Features
Lulu link
Shows incipits at website
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