Digital Musicology Austria

A range of sample musical editions are available on digital-musicology. The musical examples are MEI coded and are rendered and displayed on the fly in the browser. Furthermore, the web­site aims to make projects on the editions of work corpora available for which printing is either too costly or simply not viable.

As part of the Digital Humanities, Digital Musi­cology in the proper sense is the canon of mo­delling, transformation and analytical ap­pli­ca­tions for processing native, digitally ge­ner­a­ted information. This includes both notation and text as well as audio data. In a wider sense, Di­gi­tal Musicology also includes projects based upon traditional database systems with the task of processing structural data.

Over the coming years, traditional, digital forms of archiving and editing musical notation will increasingly replace printed forms of publi­ca­tion. The XML-based coding technique of the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) has now estab­lished itself as the standard. Among other things, digital editions of music offer the option of presenting corrections, variants or different stages in the development of compositions.