Pasts and Futures of Digital Humanities in Musicology: Moving Towards a “Bigger Tent”

Urberg, Michelle

doi:10.1080/10588167.2017.1404301

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“…Multiple computational and visualization‐based approaches have been proposed to facilitate music analysis tasks [Tym12, Wat02]. Integrating the analyst into the analysis process to support knowledge generation and verification [SSS*14] is necessary since exclusively computational approaches [Urb17] cannot model human intuition about semantic meaning. In the visualization domain, graph‐based [HMM00], matrix‐based [KS10] and projection‐based [LS19] techniques have been proposed to facilitate the visual analysis at different levels of abstraction.…”

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Augmenting Digital Sheet Music through Visual Analytics

Miller

Fürst

Schäfer

et al. 2022

Computer Graphics Forum

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Music analysis tasks, such as structure identification and modulation detection, are tedious when performed manually due to the complexity of the common music notation (CMN). Fully automated analysis instead misses human intuition about relevance. Existing approaches use abstract data‐driven visualizations to assist music analysis but lack a suitable connection to the CMN. Therefore, music analysts often prefer to remain in their familiar context. Our approach enhances the traditional analysis workflow by complementing CMN with interactive visualization entities as minimally intrusive augmentations. Gradual step‐wise transitions empower analysts to retrace and comprehend the relationship between the CMN and abstract data representations. We leverage glyph‐based visualizations for harmony, rhythm and melody to demonstrate our technique's applicability. Design‐driven visual query filters enable analysts to investigate statistical and semantic patterns on various abstraction levels. We conducted pair analytics sessions with 16 participants of different proficiency levels to gather qualitative feedback about the intuitiveness, traceability and understandability of our approach. The results show that MusicVis supports music analysts in getting new insights about feature characteristics while increasing their engagement and willingness to explore.

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Augmenting Digital Sheet Music through Visual Analytics

Miller

Fürst

Schäfer

et al. 2022

Computer Graphics Forum

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“…This encloses all information related to music, for example, sound patterns, scores, biographical information about artists, music genres and their dependencies. Similar to other subdomains of the humanities, in recent years, digital methods became increasingly important in musicology to store, structure and analyse vast amounts of digitally available musicological data [Urb17]. To achieve these tasks, visualization is a key element in this context, as it enables easier access to the data and has the capability to highlight relationships between structural elements of music [Lam12].…”

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A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data

Khulusi

Kusnick

Meinecke

et al. 2020

Computer Graphics Forum

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Digital methods are increasingly applied to store, structure and analyse vast amounts of musical data. In this context, visualization plays a crucial role, as it assists musicologists and non‐expert users in data analysis and in gaining new knowledge. This survey focuses on this unique link between musicology and visualization. We classify 129 related works according to the visualized data types, and we analyse which visualization techniques were applied for certain research inquiries and to fulfill specific tasks. Next to scientific references, we take commercial music software and public websites into account, that contribute novel concepts of visualizing musicological data. We encounter different aspects of uncertainty as major problems when dealing with musicological data and show how occurring inconsistencies are processed and visually communicated. Drawing from our overview in the field, we identify open challenges for research on the interface of musicology and visualization to be tackled in the future.

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“…Jewish music studies is still a surprisingly recent disciplinary participant in digital humanities scholarship. Even as musicologist and metadata librarian Michelle Urberg observes that ethnomusicologists have regularly made use of a plethora of digital humanities tools since the 1980s (2018:134), Jewish historian Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky recognizes that Jewish studies have been slow to catch on to this trend (2020:19). Today, beyond a handful of institutional Jewish sound archives, book companion websites, and largely self-published podcasts, few scholars working at the intersections of these disciplines have recognized the potential of making research findings accessible to and engaging for the public.…”

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Ya Lalla: Jewish Saharans Singing to Birth (https://yalalla.org.uk/) and Past and Present Musical Encounters Across the Strait of Gibraltar: Ya Lalla: A Sonic & Visual Spotlight on Women’s Resistance and Celebrations of Transmission(https://www.musicalencounters.co.uk/vanessa-exhibit). Website and online exhibit curated by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz.

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2023

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Jewish music studies is still a surprisingly recent disciplinary participant in digital humanities scholarship. Even as musicologist and metadata librarian Michelle Urberg observes that ethnomusicologists have regularly made use of a plethora of digital humanities tools since the 1980s (2018:134), Jewish historian Itay Marienberg-Milikowsky recognizes that Jewish studies have been slow to catch on to this trend (2020:19). Today, beyond a handful of institutional Jewish sound archives, book companion websites, and largely self-published podcasts, few scholars working at the intersections of these disciplines have recognized the potential of making research findings accessible to and engaging for the public.Vanessa Paloma Elbaz has recently completed not one but two interconnected multimedia projects, both with the subtitle "Ya Lalla." Together, they offer a fascinating visual and sonic narration of the history of the musical fertility rituals traditionally performed by North African Jewish women. As Elbaz explains, "the Yalalla platform explores the use of digital humanities to reinscribe the centrality of women's voices to Jewish life in North Africa, and to recreate sonic worlds which have been atomised with the dispersion of these communities in the last century." In the context of "highly patriarchal societies" contingent on "expanding filiation networks," pregnancy and birth served as "one of the few powerful tools women wielded." Though these important lifecycle events were initially accompanied by ancestral musical practices, they began to fall out of use during the French Protectorate era . Gradually, Jewish women moved to hospitals to give birth to their children, participated in processes of French cultural assimilation, and emigrated away from Marrakesh and Casablanca in Morocco, taking their cultural traditions with them. With her exclusive focus on Jewish women's musical encounters beyond the Ashkenazi mainstream, Elbaz's multimedia projects participate not only in the digitisation, but also the diversification, of diasporic Jewish musical experience.The first of these projects, "Ya Lalla: Jewish Saharans Singing to Birth," is devoted to a series of oral history interviews that Elbaz conducted with Mme Sultana Azeroual in Casablanca in 2015 and 2016. Azeroual, Elbaz explains on the sister website, is

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Pasts and Futures of Digital Humanities in Musicology: Moving Towards a “Bigger Tent”

Cited by 10 publications

References 16 publications

Augmenting Digital Sheet Music through Visual Analytics

Augmenting Digital Sheet Music through Visual Analytics

A Survey on Visualizations for Musical Data

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