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Review: Measuring Polyphony: Digital Encodings of Late Medieval Music

2019; University of California Press; Volume: 72; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.912

1547-3848

Kate Helsen,

Music and Audio Processing

Book Review| December 01 2019 Review: Measuring Polyphony: Digital Encodings of Late Medieval Music Measuring Polyphony: Digital Encodings of Late Medieval Music. Karen Desmond, Project Director. URL: https://measuringpolyphony.org/ Kate Helsen Kate Helsen KATE HELSEN is Assistant Professor in the Don Wright Faculty of Music at the University of Western Ontario. Her research currently involves developing and using digital tools and computer analytics in medieval musicology, whether it be OMR (Optical Music Recognition) for medieval notations or n-gram analysis of thousands of melodies in her Melodic Construction and Evolution in Late Medieval Saints Offices project. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2019) 72 (3): 912–920. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.912 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Kate Helsen; Review: Measuring Polyphony: Digital Encodings of Late Medieval Music. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 December 2019; 72 (3): 912–920. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.912 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search Dropdown Menu toolbar search search input Search input auto suggest filter your search All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Transcription is hard. Complicated or unfamiliar music makes it harder. In his book on music editing, James Grier reminds us that the edited or transcribed musical text is “not so much a tool, leading to higher ends, as an active, critical participant in those ends, fostering further critical study and the ultimate goal, one hopes, of all types of musical endeavour, the animation of the music in performance.”1 These are high stakes, especially when the pieces at hand are motets from the end of the medieval era, written in mensural notation. The website Measuring Polyphony uses the most recent technology in digital transcription to “animate” upward of sixty of these motets as found in the pages of several well-known thirteenth- and fourteenth-century manuscripts. This project is more than simply a digital update to the more traditional format of the printed edition; each piece is linked to a high-resolution image... You do not currently have access to this content.