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People and music: exploring their encounters over centuries
This pilot focuses on supporting music historians and teachers by providing a Web tool that enables the exploration and visualisation of encounters between people in the musical world in Europe from c.1800 to c.1945, relying on information extracted from public domain books such as biographies, memoirs and travel writing, and open-access databases. These encounters will be explored in a timeline and map interface and may reveal unexpected connections and relationships that cast new light on aspects of European music history. The tool will provide persistent, citable identifiers in order to support referencing in scholarship outputs.Recent News
Polifonia’s TONALITIES develops tools for the modal-tonal identification. Pilot leader Christophe Guillotel-Nothmann explains the ambition of the pilot that evolves around musical pattern extractions on our YouTube channel.
On Polifonia's YouTube channel, we publish a series of videos about the pilots and work packages. This…
Peter van Kranenburg (Meertens Institute, KNAW), pilot leader of ORGANS and TUNES, is part of the upcoming AVA_Net webinar on connecting music collections.
Peter van Kranenburg (Meertens Institute, KNAW), pilot leader of ORGANS and TUNES, is part of the upcoming…
The rich culture of Italian bells and bell towers is captured by Polifonia’s BELLS. Pilot leader Elena Musumeci explains this ambition in our latest YouTube video:
#bells #belltowers #heritage #tangibleheritage #italianculture
The bell tower is certainly one of the architectural elements that best characterize the Italian landscape.…
Recently, the ORGANS pilot released a press statement about its ambitions in order to reach all pipe organ enthusiasts about the upcoming Knowledge Graph on organ history. Also, the stakeholder network video is now on our YouTube channel, in which pilitor leader Peter van Kranenburg explains the work being done in this pilot.
Recently, the ORGANS pilot released a press statement about its ambitions in order to reach all pipe…
Associazione Campanari Liguri with the cooperation of Polifonia, MiC, ICCD, Soprintendenza Archeologia Belle Arti e Paesaggio per la cittĆ metropolitana di Genova e la provincia di La Spezia are organising a bell concert at the church of San Pietro Apostolo, Avegno (Italy). This is the first of a series of concerts that will be part of, and inspired by our BELL pilot.
Associazione Campanari Liguri with the cooperation of Polifonia, MiC, ICCD, Soprintendenza Archeologia…
Mari Wigham and Philo van Kemenade from Sound & Vision investigate how graph representations can help users of the CLARIAH Media Suite in their search within music collections.
Mari Wigham and Philo van Kemenade from Sound & Vision investigate how graph representations can…
Check out the special itinerary dedicated to historical bells in Italy
On the Italian website of the catalogue of cultural heritage there is an itinerary dedicated to the…
UK NCACE awarded funding for supporting the ACCESS workshops led by Simon Holland and The Stables
Polifoniaās ACCESS pilot lead by Simon Holland and The Stables in Milton Keynes were selected for…
Elena Musumeci and Chiara Veninata visited the 1000 years old Marinelli bell foundry
The village ofĀ Agnone is a small Italian town inĀ Molise also known as āThe city of bellsā. Here,…
Helen Barlow explains the relevance childrenās experience of music in the past and how to find the historical evidence for it
Music and Childhood is one of ten pilots in the Polifonia research project into European musical heritage,…
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The history of pipe organs is rich and diverse, and highly interrelated to economic, religious and artistic contexts. Currently, the information about building practices and characteristics of ~2000 Dutch…
Bell structures are widespread both in urban and rural areas. They contribute to the distinctive shape of a landscape, defining its soundscape and playing as markers of daily, festive and ritual times.…
In order to answer research questions, musical heritage scholars need to combine diverse datasetsĀ ranging fromĀ music scores,Ā audiovisualĀ materialĀ toĀ metadata. They need toĀ identifyĀ similarĀ entities…
Music libraries currently lacks well-founded information retrieval tools. While it is relatively easy to find music based on metadata, content-based music retrieval still remains as a challenge. The Facets…
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. This pilot has…
The digital music collection of theĀ MeertensĀ InstituutĀ (Amsterdam) includes thousands of melodies from Dutch popular culture, spanning a period of more than five centuries. To trace possible international…
In 2006 Bologna was declared byĀ UnescoĀ āCity of Musicā. Despite this, the extraordinary musical heritage of this city is kept in cultural institutions and archives, studied by a few specialized scholars…
This pilot will build a knowledge graph of the historical experience of music in childhood, using life writing (letters, diaries, memoirs, travel writing) and other historical texts as sources for adult…
Pilot summaryĀ The ACCESS Pilot will develop new ways to enhance participation and engagement in music:Ā for the general public; for those with hearing impairments; and for those with physical disabilities.…