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Music-Research Digest Tue, 29 Aug 89 Volume 4 : Issue 53
Today's Topics:
Database of all Databases (ICTM)
Looking for MIDI software to gen score
Markovian Music
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Date: Tue, 29 Aug 89 17:28:47 GMT
From: Schaffrath <JMP100@EARN.DE0HRZ1A>
Subject: Database of all Databases (ICTM)
To: Stephen Page <SDPAGE@UK.AC.OX.PRG>
DATABASE OF ALL DATABASES
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The database now contains 42 Titels. We still expect more updates
and above all more projects, since it is hard to believe that
there are so little ICTM-members using the computer. Therefore
you find another questionnaire at the end of this newsletter
which we ask you to fill in and send back. This should be useful
as well for you as for some scholars who want to contact people
who are working in the same field.
To give you some impression here are titles and scopes of the
projects:
List of all "Titles and Scopes"
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TITLE: LIAO: Folksongs of Chinese Han-Population
SCOPE: Chinese Music more than 2000 tape protocols, more than
1500 Mel. notations
TITLE: BALLAD: German Ballads
SCOPE: German Folksong Collection
TITLE: LIED: German Folksongs
SCOPE: German Folksong Collection
TITLE: ETHNO: Ethnomusicological sound collection
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1) A manuscript on Cariso can be sent from Ms. Philipp
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 27 * p. 3
SCOPE: Any Traditinal Music
TITLE: Jewish Music Listening Center. Computerised Catalogue
SCOPE: Jewish Music (about 1700 recordings
TITLE: DIAS: CHINA and Chinese Music in Slides
SCOPE: Chinese Music.
TITLE: Computer Assisted Instruction in Music
SCOPE: .....
TITLE: Folk Music of Styria
SCOPE: vocal and instrumental Folk music. Archiving, Analysis.
TITLE: Musikethnologische Tonaufnahmen
SCOPE: Archiving of musical examples (aprox. 60.000 tape recor-
dings)
TITLE: Bibliographic Up-Date
SCOPE: Sociology of Music. Contributions since publication of
Music and Society
TITLE: Data Access and Data Analysis
SCOPE: CHINESE Folk Music
TITLE: NN (no title!)
SCOPE: Indexing "The World of Music" 1977-87
TITLE: Datenbank deutscher Volksliedmelodien
SCOPE: handschriftliche deutschsprachige Volksliedaufzeichnungen
der ganzen Welt (in Auswahl)
TITLE: WIRTM
SCOPE: 1400 WIRTM (pilot project) World Index of Recorded Tradi-
tional Music
TITLE: Ethnic audio and video recordings
SCOPE: Recordings of Croatia and other parts of Yugoslavia: about
24 manuscript notations, 1800 tapes, 10.000 photos, 55 ,
video-tapes, 10 films
TITLE: Music sound recordings
SCOPE: Cataloging and documentation of music sound recordings
from all parts of the world. More than 350.00 items
TITLE: Cataloging and Analysis
SCOPE: Catalogues of recordings, manuscripts, films, pictures.
TITLE: Sound recordings
SCOPE: Cataloging Archive holdings (commercional and others).
Sound recordings only
TITLE: North Indian Music
SCOPE: Documentation
TITLE: Documantation of sonic material
SCOPE: .....
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 27 * p. 4
TITLE: Latin American Ethnomusicology Directory
SCOPE: .....
TITLE: Documentation of ethnic music
SCOPE: general, about 160.000 recordings
TITLE: Ethnomusicological Sound Material
SCOPE: Recordings, printed materials, audio-visual documents,
field recordings
TITLE: Traditional Music of Japan
SCOPE: .....
TITLE: Opera and Operetta
SCOPE: Literature, recordings and documentation of first perfor-
mances and productions of opera and operetta; any avai-
lable data about German-languaged stages
TITLE: History of broadcast
SCOPE: Documentation of thausands of disks, records and films;
historical documents
TITLE: RISM
SCOPE: International Inventory of Musical Sources (40.000 items
TITLE: Indian Music
SCOPE: Documentation of Indian Music, incl. field-recordings,
transcriptions
TITLE: Field Project in the Pinelands
SCOPE: Documentation of field project in New Jersey. Notes, pho-
tos, recordings
TITLE: North Indian Ragas
SCOPE: Automatic transcription and classification of melodic spe-
cies.
TITLE: CUCE
SCOPE: 20,000. ETHNOBIB database of frequently used ethno- musi-
cological literature
TITLE: Index of the Field Recordings in the Helen Hartness Flan-
ders Ballad
SCOPE: Field recordings: 4066 titles -- To provide performer,
title, location access to New England field recordings
(1930-60)
TITLE: Index of the Text Transcriptions in the Helen Hartness
Flanders Ballad
SCOPE: Text transcripts: In process (currently c. 400 titles,
total will be ca. 5000)
TITLE: Index to Broadsides
SCOPE: 450 titles
ICTM STUDY GROUP: INFO * 27 * p. 5
TITLE: A Computer-aided social anthropological analysis of a
musical system
SCOPE: Analysis
TITLE: Terms
SCOPE: Concepts and definitions
TITLE: ETHNOBIB
SCOPE: database of frequently-used ethnomusicological literature
TITLE: EDVLIT
SCOPE: Bibliography on "Music and Computers"
TITLE: ETHNOBIB
SCOPE: Bibliography on Ethnomusicological literature
TITLE: SPECTRAL analysis of Tambura
SCOPE: Psychoacoustics and musical structure in Indian Music
TITLE: MINST
SCOPE: Musical instrument collections at SMS Musikmuseet
TITLE: "SONG" Project
SCOPE: Monophonic tunes of British-American Folksong. ca. 10,000
tunes currently in database
TITLE: Ethnomusicological Sound Collections
SCOPE: International Collections of 5000 hours of field and con-
cert recordings
TITLE: Chinese Folksong Analysis
SCOPE: CHINESE Folk Music; Shanxi-Province: ca. 900 melodies
TITLE: ICTM: Database of all Databases
SCOPE: Store information about every electronic project in ICTM
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Date: 26 Aug 89 06:30:14 GMT
From: Steve Juhasz <agate!bionet!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!mailrus!cwjcc!hal!ncoast!gints@edu.berkeley.ucbvax>
Subject: Looking for MIDI software to gen score
To: music-research@uk.ac.oxford.prg
In article <6779@rpi.edu> mketch@pawl.rpi.edu (Michael D. Ketchen) writes:
>Finale, by Coda, is the most powerful music transcription program on the
>market. Unfortunately, it is also the most expensive ($1000).
Finale's price has been cut almost in half recently, because Coda finally
realized that for a 1000 bucks, people were getting a program that, while
incredibly powerful, is also incredibly difficult (I have other words for it
that can't be said due to net-iquette) and slow - even on a 2Meg Mac SE with a
hard drive.
There is also a stripped down version called Finale Jr. (or something like
that) that sells for even less. I would be curious to know what features have
been changed/removed in this new version.
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Date: 23 Aug 89 01:08:48 GMT
From: Robert Marsanyi <well!rnm@com.apple>
Subject: Markovian Music
To: music-research@uk.ac.oxford.prg
re: Markovian analysis
There's a nice PD package by Nick Didkovsky written in JForth for the Amiga
that'll take an smus file(s), generate an analysis/synthesis of new material
using a 1-degree Markov table and spit it out as smus, rendering it usable
with many other Amiga packages.
mail me for more info, anyone who's interested.
rnm@well
sysop, HMSL Forum (415) 928 8246
ps: this has been the subject of many experiments and pieces using HMSL, the
Hierarchical Music Specification Language, on the Mac and Amiga.
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