Among other factors, high complexity and mandatory expert computer knowledge make many music IR and music analysis systems unsuitable for the majority of largely computer-illiterate musicologists. The JRing system offers highly flexible yet intuitively usable search and comparison operations. to aid musicologists during score analysis. This paper discusses the requirement analysis that led to J...

entities and there is no definite hierarchical relation between tunes and between their properties. The particular mappings were discussed with several musicologists until the mapping in table 23 was deemed most suitable by the musicologists involved. The visual properties of objects studied were shape, size, colour and location with the relevant mapping as shown in table 23. The BROWSE system ...

This thesis contributes to bridging the gap between music information retrieval (MIR) and musicology. We present several automated methods for music analysis, which are motivated by concrete application scenarios being of central importance in musicology. In this context, the automated music analysis is performed on the basis of audio material. Here, one reason is that for a given piece of musi...

Without a rich understanding of user behaviours and needs, music information retrieval (MIR) systems might not be ideally suited to their potential users. In this study, we followed an ethnographic methodology to elicit some of the strategies used by musicologists to explore and document musical performances, in order to investigate if and how technologies could enhance such a process. Observat...

Armonique is a Web2 framework for the management of audio material, including searching, archiving, and metadata extraction. It allows users to navigate large audio collections based solely on the similarity of the audio content itself, as opposed to metadata generated from human beings (e.g., musicologists and listener preferences). This framework allows new material to be added easily into an...

The Europeana repository hosts large collections of digitized music manuscripts and prints. This paper investigates how tools and services for this repository can enable Early Music musicologists to carry out their research in a more effective or efficient way, or to carry out research that is impossible to do without such tools or services. We report on the methodology, user-centered developme...

Musicologists have to consult an extraordinarily heterogeneous body of primary and secondary sources during all stages of their research. Many of these sources are now available online, but the historical dispersal of material across libraries and archives has now been replaced by segregation of data and metadata into a plethora of online repositories. This segregation hinders the intelligent m...

In order to provide a better e-research environment for musicologists, the musicSpace project has partnered with musicology’s leading data publishers, aggregated and enriched their data, and developed a richly featured exploratory search interface to access the combined dataset. There have been several significant challenges to developing this service, and intensive collaboration between musico...

As opposed to the former idea of creative autonomy, in recent years, humanities research tends to investigate cultural contexts and circumstances, inspirational models, and the ways that knowledge, experience and expertise have been transferred over time. We address the question of "creative transfer" within the field of music. Due to the everlasting significance of musical works, relationships...