CNRS/IReMus welcomes post-doc fellow

Prolific musicologist Marco Gurrieri joins the Polifonia project at the IReMus

portrait of Marco Gurrieri
19 March 2021

Marco Gurrieri has recently joined the Polifonia team of the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie as a postdoctoral researcher. Dr Gurrieri has a double expertise in musical heritage and digital musicology. In Polifonia, he coordinates the WP1 and is involved in the modal analytical aspects of the TONALITIES pilot. 

Dr Gurrieri was previously a fellow at the Center for Renaissance Studies in Tours, where he participated in various digital musicology projects  such as Gesualdo Online, Personae, Citations: the Renaissance Imitation Mass, GioQoso, an Online Quality Assessment Tool for Music. He holds a PhD (2009) in musicology and philological sciences from the University of Pavia, and has extensively published on musical heritage, Renaissance, Italian Seicento, and French and Italian opera. Next to research, he has also collaborated with prominent Italian opera houses and early music festivals including Teatro La Fenice in Venice, Teatro Regio in Turin, Teatro Regio in Parma, Cremona Monteverdi Festival, Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi, and Ravenna Festival

Recent News

Polifonia recently released results of 40 months of research and development at the intersection of musicology, semantic web technologies, AI and Music Information Retrieval. And the Polifonia Web Portal, which enhances the discoverability of European musical heritage with Linked Open Data and Knowledge Graphs, can now be explored.

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3 July 2024

With a strong base in academia, the Polifonia team looks forward to the conference season every year. One of the highlights is the Extended Semantic Web Conference. In this article, a brief review of our participation in this conference and update on our paper output.

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26 June 2024

From the beginning of the project, Podiumkunst.net and Polifonia have been in close contact and looked to each other as role models. Our stakeholder Podiumkunst.net reflects on this synergy with a positive outlook. Remco de Boer and Monique in het Veld on the importance of the collaboration and the impact. 

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11 June 2024

TONALITIES, IReMus’ pilot for musical heritage data project Polifonia, develops tools for the modal-tonal identification, exploration and classification of monophonic and polyphonic notated music from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. Now, the tools are available for use within the TONALITIES Interface for music analysis. Additionally, a patent was recently acquired for this collaborative interface by the IReMus lab.

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29 May 2024

From April 8 to May 6 Polifonia organised their own version of the Eurovision Song Contest, the Polifonia Song Contest: musicians of all levels were challenged to create the ‘soundtrack of our history’ by using samples from the rich collections in the Polifonia project. Today we can announce the winning song.

From April 8 to May 6 Polifonia organised their own version of the Eurovision Song Contest, the Polifonia…

13 May 2024

After four years of development work, the Polifonia project team is excited to present the results. The consortium, consisting of 10 partners from Italy, the Netherlands, France, England and Ireland launches the music discoverability platform ‘Polifonia Web Portal’. In addition, the researchers and developers have also unlocked and linked other music data, developed tools and software that will help musicologists take steps forward in their research on European musical heritage.

After four years of development work, the Polifonia project team is excited to present the results.…

8 May 2024

The Polifonia project formally ended on April 30, which means that the tools and software developed within this 4-year-project are released and ready for use. Today we look at ‘Patterns UI’.

The Polifonia project formally ended on April 30, which means that the tools and software developed…

3 May 2024

Polifonia Song Contest is two weeks in, and will continue for another two weeks. Have you downloaded the sample pack yet?

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22 April 2024

Are you the type of musician that is inspired by old sounds, such as cheerful Irish folk melodies, the majestic resonance of pipe organ concerts, and the timeless chimes echoing from century-old Italian bell towers? Then ‘Polifonia Song Contest’ is your challenge!

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8 April 2024

The consortium is preparing for the last face-to-face consortium meeting of the Polifonia project in April 2024.

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4 April 2024

This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement N. 101004746