Music Encoding Initiative Enables New Forms of Digital Musicology

Global leaders of the Music Encoding Initiative—which provides guidelines and tools for encoding music notation in computational form—joined experienced practitioners and newcomers to the process for a cross-disciplinary workshop and hackathon at Vanderbilt October 24-27, 2019.

Joy H. Calico, Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Musicology and professor of German studies, and Clifford Anderson, associate university librarian for research and digital initiatives, hosted the MEI conference, a collaborative effort funded by The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation and co-sponsored by the Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries, the Blair School of Music, the Center for Digital Humanities, and the Digital Cultural Heritage Research Cluster.

“The translation of musical notation into machine readable code allows small- and large-scale analysis of musical documents, enabling new forms of digital musicology,” Calico said. Read more …