Subject: Fwd: Music Retrieval Tools
David Green (david@ninch.org)
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:03:41 -0500
Message-Id: <v04011718b243d458a9a4@[192.100.21.23]> Date: Fri, 9 Oct 1998 10:03:41 -0500 To: ninch-announce@cni.org From: David Green <david@ninch.org> Subject: Fwd: Music Retrieval Tools
NINCH ANNOUNCEMENT
October 8, 1998
MUSIC RETRIEVAL SOFTWARE
For those interested in the question posted on HUMANIST about the
availability of music retrieval tools, I'm copying the useful response from
John Unsworth to the HUMANIST list.
David Green
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> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 245.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>
> [1] From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu> (57)
> Subject: Re: 12.0240 retrieval for music, multimedia?
>
> [2] From: James Bower <JBower@getty.edu> (68)
> Subject: Re: Music Retrieval Tools
>
>
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> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 13:22:20 -0400
> From: John Unsworth <jmu2m@virginia.edu>
> Subject: Re: 12.0240 retrieval for music, multimedia?
>
>I referred the question from Humanist 12.0240 concerning "tools for musical
>data retrieval" to Perry Roland, in the Library's Digital Media and Music
>Center. Here's his reply:
>
>>Here are some citations in no particular order --
>>
>>1. Hyatt King, Alexander. "The past, present, and future of the thematic
>>catalogue." Monthly Musical Review 84: 10-13 (Jan. 1954); 39-46 (Feb.
>>1954).
>>
>>2. Brook, Barry S. "On the definitions, functions, historiography, and
>>future of the thematic catalogue." In his Thematic Catalogues in Music:
>>An Annotated Bibliography. Hillsdale, N.Y. Pendragon Press, 1972, p.
>>vii-xx. (There is a newer edition of this).
>>
>>3. Brook, Barry S. "A tale of thematic catalogues." MLA Notes 29: 407-415
>>(Mar. 1973). (A reworking of number 2.)
>>
>>4. Brook, Barry S. "Thematic catalogue." New Grove Dictionary of Music and
>>Musicians, v. 18, pp. 732-736. (Also a reworking of number 2.)
>>
>>5. LaRue, Jan and Cannata, David. "An ancient crisis in music
>>bibliography: the need for incipits." MLA Notes 50: 502-518 (Dec.
>>1993).
>>
>>6. LaRue, Jan and Logemann, George W. "EDP for thematic catalogues."
>>MLA Notes ?: 1179-1192 (??). (Sorry, I've got a photocopy with a proper
>>citation.)
>>
>>7. Brook, Barry S. and Viano, Richard J. "The thematic catalogue in
>>music: further reflections on its past, present, and future." In
>>Foundations in Music Bibliography. Haworth Press, 1993, p. 27-46.
>>(There's a fine bibliography here.)
>>
>>8. Krummel, D.W. "Citing the score: descriptive bibliography and printed
>>music." The Library 6th series, 9: 329-346 (Dec. 1987).
>>
>>
>>All of these authors are authorities on this topic. All of them talk about
>>searching music data based on an incipit, not the full content, but the
>>principles are the same. I think the broad time span of these cites
>>indicates the importance of the task.
>>
>>What's amazing is that during all this time so much has been written, but
>>so little done about the problem. Progress has been stymied, however,
>>mostly by the fact that there is no standard computerized method of music
>>representation.
>>
>>This area is a particular interest of mine. Please feel free to contact
>>me if you'd like to discuss it further.
>>
>>--
>>Perry Roland
>>pdr4h@virginia.edu
>>Digitial Media Center
>>Clemons Library
>>University of Virginia
>>
>
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> Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 11:32:37 -0800
> From: James Bower <JBower@getty.edu>
> Subject: Re: Music Retrieval Tools
>
>In response to Dr. McCarty's request for references to "definitive
>statements" about the need for retrieval tools for music and
>multimedia, I would refer him to the document, "Research Agenda for
>Networked Cultural Heritage," published by the Getty Art History
>Information Program (now Getty Information Institute) in 1996. Among
>the eight sponsored research papers, those by Gary Marchionini
>("Resource Search and Discovery") and Donna Romer ("Image and
>Multimedia Retrieval") refer directly to the need for such tools. In
>addition, there are potentially useful references larded throughout
>the introductory Overview and Discussion Points.
>
>The full text of the publication is available on the Information
>Institute's web site at <www.gii.getty.edu/ranch>.
>
>James M. Bower
>Head, Institutional Relations
>Getty Information Institute
>1200 Getty Center Drive, Suite 300
>Los Angeles CA 90049-1680
>
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>>Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:50:36 +0100 (BST)
>>Reply-To: humanist@kcl.ac.uk
>>From: Humanist Discussion Group <humanist@kcl.ac.uk>
>>>
>> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 12, No. 240.
>> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
>> <http://www.princeton.edu/~mccarty/humanist/>
>> <http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/>
>>
>> Date: Tue, 6 Oct 1998 12:35:22 +0100 (BST)
>> From: Willard McCarty <Willard.McCarty@kcl.ac.uk>
>> Subject: retrieval tools for music, multimedia?
>>
>>A colleague not on Humanist is attempting to make the case "that
>>tools for musical data-retrieval are urgently needed by the academic and
>>commercial communities (everything from scholarly thematic catalogues to
>>copyright infringement control, etc, etc)." He notes that anecdotal
>>evidence is not lacking but needs "a reference to some authoritative
>>statement that there is a lack of useful content-based search and
>>data-retrieval tools for music (or for multimedia in general)."
>>
>>Does anyone on Humanist know of such a statement? Please reply to
>the group.
>>
>>Many thanks.
>>
>>Yours,
>>WM
>>
>>----------
>>Dr. Willard McCarty
>>Senior Lecturer, Centre for Computing in the Humanities
>>King's College London / Strand / London WC2R 2LS
>>+44 (0)171 873 2784 voice; 873 5081 fax
>>http://www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/wlm/
>>maui gratia
>>
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