Wider Access and Benefit

Projects that most appeal to me are those that combine fundamental research with coherent plans for real, immediate, wider benefit. Fortunately, corpus study and computational approaches to music are ready made for this synthesis. This page highlights a few of the main projects and how I think that connection can work.

On this page:

OMT

Open Music Theory is a free, born-digital, online textbook co-authored by several colleagues. I have so enjoyed being in this OMT-team, loved contributing (over 30 chapters), and am gratified to know that ~1.5 million people have benefitted from it already in ~3 years. This most directly connects with my research in the anthology section, notably:

On OMT The Data Research Note
Harmony anthology “When in Rome” TISMIR 2023 and ISMIR 2023  
Serial anthology Serial_Analyser Gotham and Yust 2021 That article (<) is free and open access when approached via this DLfM page

These analysis corpora complement (and often benefit from) the score corpora described below.

Collections

Since 2018 I’ve been driving projects create large collections of high-quality musical scores and release them freely so that anyone can able to play, download, transpose and use as they please copyright-free (under a CC0 license).

These projects are in association with OpenScore. To date, we offer two major collections of lieder (songs) and string quartets. For more information …

What? Play online Whole Corpus Publication Other
~1,300 songs musescore.com GitHub Mirror Gotham and Jonas 2021,
Gotham et al. 2018		 Magazine piece,
Coordination Spreadsheet
~100 quartets musescore.com GitHub Mirror Gotham et al. 2023 Editorial notes,
Coordination Spreadsheet
~100 orchestral works TBC GitHub Coming soon Prototype visualisations on TiLiA:
Beethoven;
Beach

Finally, here’s an example from the lieder collection:

Schumann, Clara - Lieder, Op.12, No.4 - Liebst du um Schönheit on the OpenScore LiederCorpus main site