Explore scores with the new TONALITIES tool

TONALITIES is developing tools for the modal-tonal identification, exploration, and classification of monophonic and polyphonic notated music from the Renaissance to the twentieth century. The TONALITIES pilot just released its first demo, including a video that takes you through the interface step by step!

Score analysation with Tonalities’ annotation interface

The study of the modal-tonal organisation of European music is crucial for comprehending its structural properties, inner coherence, dramatic plot and, ultimately, artistic meaning. To support this field of study, Polifonia embraces the open linked data paradigm: the pilot references large corpora of music made available in digital score libraries (and in later versions: uploaded to the interface) and explores them through a quantitative-qualitative approach that consists of modelling different theories – historical or contemporary, specific or general – and applying them to musical works through a dedicated interface combining machine learning and human annotations.

Explore the tool
Polifonia’s TONALITIES is proud to present its latest tool that allows you to analyse a digital score library. Explore the first demo here. 

You can do the following things with this tool:

• Select different models, corresponding to different theoretical and analytical viewpoints;
• Select every item on the score (verticalities, groups of notes, etc.) at any level of granularity
• Create arbitrary selection trees through nested selections, edit a selection or add/remove elements (including other selections)
• Associate concepts derived from the models with these analytical elements
• Comment on the analytical annotations
• Compare the annotations made on the same score either by different users or on the basis of different models

Below you’ll find instruction videos on how to use this tool:

Help to improve this tool!
The demo is still being evaluated by various stakeholders so the developers can make improvements. Your opinion matters also! If you want to evaluate the software and drive its development, please fill out this 5-minute-questionnaire.