Zu einigen Aktivitäten der Digital Musicology auf dem Gebiet der Älteren Musik

Abstract

This paper discusses some of the increasing activities in the field of digital musicology. The focus being on early music prior to 1600 doesn't mean that the questions and methods presented here can't be applied to other periods or to musicology in general. However, particularly early music seems to profit in a special way by the use of digital methods, especially in the fields of notation history, transmission of manuscripts and performance practice. The paper presents an overview over various projects, approaches and techniques that were developed in recent years or that are still under development. It covers the fields of music encoding and visualization, digital editing, reconstruction of manuscripts and libraries, of melodies and parts, of virtual sound spaces and historical tuning and how this will open up new horizons for research in early music history.