Abstract:Abstract To understand a musical corpus one must attend to its details. But musical details are notoriously hard to control: without months or even years of close study, how can one know if a given me...Abstract To understand a musical corpus one must attend to its details. But musical details are notoriously hard to control: without months or even years of close study, how can one know if a given melodic gesture is rare or commonplace, a given contrapuntal progression mysterious or mundane? This essay introduces the Josquin Research Project (http://josquin.stanford.edu), a tool for exploring a central repertory of polyphonic music, ca. 1420–1520. A series of case studies shows how digital resources can facilitate finely tuned musical search and analysis of a sort that is otherwise all but impossible—and how research of this kind can profitably change our engagement with musical corpora.Read More
Publication Year: 2022
Publication Date: 2022-04-20
Language: en
Type: book-chapter
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