Reading List

Before the start of the institute, participants will be asked to complete the following readings. All explicitly highlight broad questions around the use of technology in historical musicology while introducing repertoires and tools to be discussed during the Institute’s sessions.

Core Readings

Cumming, Julie, Cory McKay, Jonathan Stuchbery, and Ichiro Fujinaga. “Methodologies for Creating Symbolic Corpora of Western Music before 1600.” Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Paris, France, 2018. http://ismir2018.ircam.fr/doc/pdfs/46_Paper.pdf; https://zenodo.org/records/1492459.

Cumming, Julie. “Why Should Musicologists Do Digital Humanities?” Troja: Jahrbuch für Renaissancemusik, (Re)-Constructing Renaissance Music: Perspectives from the Digital Humanities and Music Theory, 2018, 35-46 (published 2020).  https://miami.uni-muenster.de/Record/07f4509e-4228-447c-b226-2c5f67b00d98 ; https://dx.doi.org/10.17879/31149608645.

Helsen, Kate. Review. Measuring Polyphony: Digital Encodings of Late Medieval Music. Journal of the American Musicological Society (2019) 72 (3): 912–920. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2019.72.3.912.

Kirkman, Andrew. Review. The Josquin Research Project by Jesse Rodin and Craig Sapp. Journal of the American Musicological Society (2015) 68 (2): 455–465. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2015.68.2.455.

Lacoste, Debra. “The Cantus Database and Cantus Index Network.” Chapter 30, Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. Edited by Daniel T. Shanahan, Ashley Burgoyne, and Ian Quinn. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2022 (online). https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190945442.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780190945442-e-18.

Lacoste, D., 2012. “The Cantus Database: Mining for Medieval Chant Traditions.” Digital Medievalist, 7. DOI: http://doi.org/10.16995/dm.42.

Ricciardi, Emiliano. “The Tasso in Music Project.” Early Music 43, no. 4 (November 2015): 667-671.

Ricciardi, Emiliano. Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass Project (CRIM). Richard Freedman and David Fiala, Project Directors. Journal of the American Musicological Society (2024) 77 (3): 863–875. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2024.77.3.863.

Wissner, Reba A. “Training College Music Students to be Digitally Literate: A Public Musicology Certificate in Action.” New Directions in Teaching and Learning 2024, no. 179 (2024): 1-10.

 

Additional Resources

Antila, Christopher, and Julie Cumming. “The VIS Framework: Analyzing Counterpoint in Large Datasets.” 15^th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 2014 (ISMIR 2014).http://www.terasoft.com.tw/conf/ismir2014/proceedings/T014_162_Paper.pdf.

Arthur, Claire, Julie Cumming, and Peter Schubert. “The Role of Structural Tones in Establishing Mode in Renaissance Counterpoint.” Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies, Oxford Handbooks Online, ed. Daniel Shanahan, John Ashley Burgoyne, and Ian Quinn. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190945442.013.

Cumming, Julie, and Cory McKay. “Using Corpus Studies to Find the Origins of the Madrigal.” Proceedings of the Conference Future Directions of Music Cognition, March 2021. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1kcHsI-UfrpzB5yzr39v3dw_TETkAeXTs/view ; paper and video with musical examples: https://osf.io/mqezt/. DOI 10.17605/osf.io/mqezt.

Cumming, Julie. “Verdelot’s Ultimi miei sospiri and Padovano’s Mass: Exploring Contrapuntal Form without and with CRIM Intervals.” CRIM Essays and Experiments, ed. Richard Freedman. Haverford College and CRIM Project. URL: https://crimwp.richardfreedman.sites.haverford.edu/?page_id=311.

Desmond, Karen, Emily Hopkins, Samuel Howes, and Julie Cumming. “Computer-aided Analysis of Sonority in the French Motet Repertory, ca. 1300-1350.” Music Theory Online, 26.4 (December 2020). https://mtosmt.org/issues/mto.20.26.4/mto.20.26.4.desmond.html.

Freedman, Richard, Raffaele Viglianti, and Adam Crandell. “The Collaborative Musical Text.” Music Reference Services Quarterly 20 no. 3-4 (December 2017): 151-167.

Freedman, Richard. “Close and Distant Reading: Data Analysis Meets the Renaissance Chanson.” In The Oxford Handbook of Music and Corpus Studies. Edited by Daniel Shanahan, John Ashley Burgoyne, and Ian Quinn. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Helsen, Kate, Jennifer Bain, Ichiro Fujinaga, Andrew Hankinson, and Debra Lacoste. “Optical Music Recognition and Manuscript Chant Sources.” Early Music 42, no. 4 (November 2014): 555-558.

Lacoste, Debra. “Networking Chant Databases – The Cantus Index.” Musiktheorie: Zeitschrift für Musikwissenschaft (Digital Humanities issue) 34/3 (2019): 196-214.

McKay, Cory, Julie Cumming, and Ichiro Fujinaga. “Characterizing Composers Using jSymbolic2 Features.” Extended Abstracts for the Late-Breaking Demo Session of the 18th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, Suzhou, China, 2017. https://ismir2017.smcnus.org/lbds/McKay2017.pdf; http://www.music.mcgill.ca/~cmckay/papers/musictech/mckay17characterizing.pdf.

McKay, Cory, Julie Cumming, and Ichiro Fujinaga. 2021. “Lessons learned in a large-scale project to digitize and computationally analyze musical scores.” Digital Scholarship in the Humanities 36 (s2): ii198–ii202.

Pugin, Laurent. “The Challenge of Data in Digital Musicology.” Frontiers in Digital Humanities 2, no. 4 (August 2015). https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/digital-humanities/articles/10.3389/fdigh.2015.00004/full.

Schubert, Peter, and Julie Cumming. “Another Lesson from Lassus: Using Computers to Analyze Counterpoint.” Early Music 43.4 (November 2015): 577-86. http://em.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2015/09/17/em.cav088.full.pdf?keytype=ref&ijkey=xejnUz7AQfGNiVU.

Thomae, Martha E., Julie Cumming, and Ichiro Fujinaga. “Counterpoint Error-Detection Tools for Optical Music Recognition of Renaissance Polyphonic Music.” In Proceedings of the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Bengaluru, India, 2022.

Thomae, Martha E., Julie Cumming, and Ichiro Fujinaga. “Digitization of Choirbooks in Guatemala.” In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicologists, 19–26. Prague, Czech Republic: ACM, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3543882.3543885.

Upham, Finn, and Julie Cumming. “Auditory Streaming Complexity and Renaissance Mass Ordinary Cycles.” Empirical Musicology Review 15 (2021), no. 3-4: 202-222. http://dx.doi.org/10.18061/emr.v15i3-4.7980.

Vendrix, Philippe. “Gesualdo On-Line: The Economic Model of a Digital Music Edition.” Paper presented at The Future of Digital Editions of Music Symposium, Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK,  March 2023. https://hal.science/hal-04100795/.

White, Christopher. “Some Aspects of Pedagogical Corpora.” Empirical Musicology Review, 2021. emusicology.org/article/view/7785.

White, Christopher. The AI Music Problem: Why machine learning and artificial intelligence misalign with musical creativity. Routledge, 2025.

White, Christopher. The Music in The Data: Corpus Analysis, Music Analysis, And Tonal Traditions. Routledge, 2022.

Wissner, Reba A. “The Music-Driven Syllabus: Using Music Notation and Content to Engage Students with the Syllabus,” College Music Symposium 62, no. 2 (2022). https://shorturl.at/fhlu3.