Scholarly Music Editions as Graph: Semantic Modelling of the Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe

This paper presents a first draft of the ongoing research at the Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe (Basel, CH) to apply RDF-based semantic models for the purpose of a scholarly digital music edition. A brief overview of different historical positions to approach music from a graph-theoretical perspective is followed by a list of music-related and other RDF vocabularies that may support this goal, such as MusicOWL, DoReMus, CIDOC CRMinf, or the NIE-INE ontologies. Using the example of some of Webern's sketches for two drafted Goethe settings (M306 & M307), a preliminary graph-based model for philological knowledge and processes is envisioned, which incorporates existing ontologies from the context of cultural heritage and music. Finally, possible use-cases, and the consequences of such an approach to scholarly music editions, are discussed

Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021, 19–22 July, 2021 University of Alicante (Spain): Onsite & Online

Este documento incluye los artículos y pósters presentados en el Music Encoding Conference 2021 realizado en Alicante entre el 19 y el 22 de julio de 2022.Funded by project Multiscore, MCIN/AEI/10.13039/50110001103

Foreword

Foreword of the Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021

Scholarly Music Editions as Graph: Semantic Modelling of the Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe

This paper presents a first draft of the ongoing research at the Anton Webern Gesamt- ausgabe (Basel, CH) to apply RDF-based semantic models for the purpose of a scholarly digital music edition. A brief overview of different historical positions to approach music from a graph-theoretical perspective is followed by a list of music- related and other RDF vocabularies that may support this goal, such as MusicOWL, DoReMus, CIDOC CRMinf, or the NIE-INE ontologies. Using the example of some of Webern’s sketches for two drafted Goethe settings (M306 & M307), a preliminary graph-based model for philological knowledge and processes is envisioned, which incorporates existing ontologies from the context of cultural heritage and music. Finally, possible use-cases, and the consequences of such an approach to scholarly music editions, are discussed

Foreword

Foreword of the Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021

Eine musikwissenschaftliche Edition in virtueller Umgebung. Die Einbindung der Anton Webern-Gesamtausgabe in SALSAH [Poster]

Die virtuelle Forschungsplattform SALSAH ( System for Annotation and Linkage of Sources in Arts and Humanities) ermöglicht sowohl die Erzeugung, Bearbeitung und Verknüpfung von Daten und Inhalten als auch deren Präsentation in ein und derselben Umgebung. Ihre hierarchisierbare Datenmodellierung begünstigt die Herausbildung eines 'semantic web' aus digitalen Objekten mit ihren jeweiligen Annotationen und Verknüpfungen. Die an der Universität Basel ansässige Anton Webern-Gesamtausgabe nutzt diesen Ansatz für ihre historisch-kritische Edition des musikalischen Werks Anton Weberns gleich mehrfach: als Quellenarchiv, als Dokumentationsdatenbank sowie als editionspraktisches Arbeitswerkzeug. Die Posterpräsentation soll die strukturelle Konzeption für die Einbindung einer (musik-)wissenschaftlichen Edition in eine solche virtuelle Forschungsumgebung veranschaulichen

A Musicological Edition in a Virtual Environment: Integrating the Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe in SALSAH [Poster]

The virtual research platform SALSAH (System for Annotation and Linkage of Sources in Arts and Humanities) allows both the production, processing and linking of data and content as well as their presentation in the same environment. Its hierarchically structured data model creates a 'semantic web' of digital objects with their annotations and links. Based at the University of Basel, Switzerland, the Anton Webern Gesamtausgabe uses this approach for a historical-critical edition of the musical oeuvre of Anton Webern in several ways: as a source archive, as documentation database as well as a practical tool for the philological work. The poster presentation is intended to illustrate the structural and methodical design for the integration of a (music) scientific edition in such a virtual research environment

Ontologien in der Praxis: Möglichkeiten und Herausforderungen für die Modellierung musikwissenschaftlicher/musikeditorischer Wissensstrukturen

Die Aufbereitung, Verbreitung, Einordnung und Überprüfbarkeit von „belastbarem“ Wissen stellt einige der drängendsten gesamtgesel lschaftlichen Herausforderungen dieses noch jungen digitalen Zeitalters dar. Dabei können informationstheoretische Ontologien, die in die Vision des sogenannten Semantic Web eingebunden sind, von großem Nutzen sein. Anhand von Anwendungsbeispielen sowie gr undlegenden Begrifflichkeiten, Mechanismen und Herausforderungen bei der Systematisierung und Modellierung von Wissensstrukturen, werden die aktuellen Möglichkeiten für eine „semantische“ digitale Musikwissenschaft aufgezeigt. The processing, dissemination, classification and verifiability of "resilient" knowledge represents some of the most pressing challenges facing society as a whole in this still young digital age. Information-theoretical ontologies that are integrated into the vision of the so-called semantic web can be of great use here. On the basis of application examples as well as the explanation of basic concepts, mechanisms and challenges for the systematization and modelling of knowledge structures, the current possibilities for a "semantic" digital musicology are shown

Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021. 19–22 July, 2021 University of Alicante (Spain): Onsite & Online. Edited by Stefan Münnich and David Rizo

Conference proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2021 with Foreword by Stefan Münnich and David Rizo

Visualizing Harmony Using Chordal Glyphs and Color Mapping

Musical scores are frequently annotated with harmonic information, but widely used text-based methods rely on a limited number of visual channels. Though glyph-based methods exploit more channels, existing systems often violate perceptual design principles when employing color and rarely capture the frequency of chordal changes or their harmonic function. In this work, we introduce a new design idiom for augmenting sheet music through chordal glyphs embedded directly within musical staves. Harmonic concepts, weighted by saliency and categorized by data type, are mapped to visual channels ranked by discriminability. Preattentive processing is leveraged to support various user tasks, alongside redundant encodings of foundational harmonic elements to improve overall perceptual effectiveness. Key names and chord roots are displayed using parallel hue-based 12-step categorical colormaps. We then distill several design implications inherent in assigning colors to musical pitches regarding perceptual and linguistic effectiveness. Following this discussion, we outline open research directions