[MEI-L] Freedman Renaissance Music Book Project launches

[Prof. Dr. Morent]

Dear Richard,

thank you for your interesting mail.
I browsed through the sites of your impressive work - it seems really  
great to me, congratulation!

I am happy to hear, that there might be another project of early music  
connected with MEI.

Although I am working in the field of Medieval Music it might be  
interesting to get in touch with your work at the CESR and withj  
Philippe Vendrix.

You will find our MEI demo-viewer for the edition of Hildegard's music at

http://www.dimused.uni-tuebingen.de/hildegard/?SCREEN=1224x611

My best
Stefan
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University of Tuebingen
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Zitat von Richard Freedman <rfreedma at haverford.edu>:

> Dear Friends,
>
>
>
> Just a short note to bring you up to date on the electronic Du  
> Chemin project I've mentioned during our various MEI discussions.    
> First the good news:  the site is now available to the public.  I  
> have been here in Tours since early May working with Vincent Besson  
> and other members of the CESR staff to put finishing touches on  
> editions, commentaries, and the web site itself, which we at last  
> completed on Friday.  This week the CESR is hosting five days of  
> reports and conversations on its various electronic projects,  
> including the Du Chemin site.  In addition there are projects on the  
> Mass, a chanson database, a new project that aims to create critical  
> editions of the literary texts from the Du Chemin series, projects  
> on singers, and on the emotions in relation to music.  It is a  
> healthy array, and we hope to learn from each other about ways to  
> bind these initiatives together.
>
>
>
> To date, then, the Du Chemin project has managed to meet the goals  
> set out in our Digital Humanities Start-up Grant from the NEH.  The  
> site is fully functional, with lots of interesting features for  
> browsing, searching, displaying, downloading transcriptions, and  
> reading commentaries.  We have mounted a full book of  
> transcriptions, several books of facsimiles, and all the  
> commentaries, editorial policies, and related instructions.  We have  
> two other books of transcriptions that are in the final stages of  
> editing, and should go up by the end of the month of June.  Three  
> more books of transcriptions are in the works.  The site devoted to  
> reconstructions of pieces with missing voice parts will now be  
> sustained as an allied project at the CESR--the Atelier virtuelle de  
> restitution polyphonique.   Our colleagues here plan another  
> week-long session devoted to this (in various repertories) in October.
>
>
>
> With help from some of the IT folks at Haverford, I have also been  
> able to link two blogs to the site--one will be a public face of the  
> project, inviting readers to ask questions, explore pedagogy, tell  
> us about research projects, and generally let us know how they are  
> using the resource.  The other blog will be for editors and  
> advisors, and will serve as a way for us to keep track of important  
> questions and discussions as we manage such projects.
>
>
>
> Now the rest of the news:  I just learned on Friday that our  
> application to the NEH for $110,000 to support the Du Chemin project  
> was not successful .  I have asked for reader's reports, and will  
> let you know what they said about the proposal.  We will consider  
> other funding sources, and also strongly consider applying to the  
> NEH again in the fall.  Meanwhile all of our work will continue in  
> the years ahead.  Philippe Vendrix has secured considerable funding  
> (in the region of 300,000 Euros) to keep all of these initiatives  
> (including Du Chemin) moving forward over the course of the next two  
> to three years.   I hope to bring members of the CESR to the US  
> during the 2010-2011 academic year to report on our work (perhaps  
> we'll be able to gather at the AMS meeting in some way).
>
>
>
> What's in this for MEI?  I know that Philippe Vendrix (dean of the  
> CESR) is very interested in the possibilities offered by MEI for the  
> presentation of critical editions and other digital representation  
> of music editions.  He has a technical team that is already familiar  
> with TEI (through their Bibliothèques virtuelles humanistes), and he  
> has the resources to sustain such work over a multi-year horizon,  
> with many publication projects in the works.  I think, in short,  
> that the CESR could be an early adopter of some of the MEI  
> techniques, and would offer a nice way to connect scholars (of early  
> music in this case) with a publisher who is prepared to experiment  
> with the system.  I would be happy to put him in touch with you.  I  
> think he would be prepared to host some representatives of the MEI  
> project here at the CESR for discussions.
>
>
>
> Here is the link to the Du Chemin site, and another to the Ricercar  
> program's full array of digital initiatives:
>
>
>
> http://ricercar.cesr.univ-tours.fr/3-programmes/EMN/Duchemin/
>
>
>
> http://ricercar.cesr.univ-tours.fr/3-programmes/0430.htm
>
>
>
> With continued thanks for your interest and involvement,
>
>
>
> Richard
>
>
>
>
>
> Richard Freedman
> John C. Whitehead Professor of Music
> Chair, Department of Music
> Haverford College
>
> rfreedma at haverford.edu
> 610-896-1007 (o)
> 610-896-4902 (f)
>
>
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