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Initiative Geisteswissenschaften

Manuscripts on Screen: Early Music Sources in the Digital Age

14 December 2023, Institut der Rechtswissenschaften (RAI-J-009) and online

Programme:

9.15  Welcome
Nicolò Ferrari and Inga Mai Groote (Universität Zürich)

9.30  RITUS ECCLESIAE: A Digital Tool for Mapping the Latin Liturgical Tradition
Paweł Figurski (Universität Regensburg)

10.00  Reflections on Crowdsourced Indexing Initiatives for Pre-Modern Chant Books
Henry T. Drummond (KU Leuven)

10.30  Through a Screen Darkly: Machine Mediated Knowledge of Medieval Music Sources
Nicholas Bleisch (KU Leuven)

11.00  Coffee Break

11.30  Care and Conservation for Manuscript Digitization
Marta Grimaccia (Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana)

12.00  Going Small: Opportunities and Challenges of Digitization in Working with Small Archives
Hein Sauer (Universität Zürich)

12.30  Lunch Break

14.00  Digitizing Musical Prints: Problems and Possibilities
Antonio Chemotti (KU Leuven – Alamire Foundation – KBR, Royal Library of Belgium)

14.30  Medieval and Early Modern Music Manuscripts in LOD: Prospects and Challenges Within the Floreat Musica Project
Alexandros Hatzikiriakos (I Tatti – The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)

15.00  Reflections on a Digital Codicology of Music Manuscripts
Nicolò Ferrari (Universität Zürich)

15.30  Discussion

Rechtswissenschaftliches Institut
RAI-J-009
Rämistrasse 74
8001 Zürich

Please register by email (for participation in person or online) at igw@rwi.uzh.ch 

IGW-Postdoc-Fellow Dr. Nicolò Ferrari

Dr. Nicolò Ferrari studied musicology at the University of Pavia in Cremona and then moved to the UK where he obtained a PhD with a dissertation on the masses of the 15th-ct. composer Fremin le Caron. He has been a Research Associate at the University of Manchester, and now holds there an honorary research fellowship. Among recent and forthcoming publications are an article on texting in late fifteenth-century polyphonic masses (Journal of the Alamire Foundation)studies on the "L’homme armé" traditionand the Catalogue raisonné of the Cappella Sistina music manuscripts of the Vatican Library, co-authored with Thomas Schmidt. He was awarded grants from the Society of Renaissance Studies and the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East, and holds an Associate Fellowship of the Royal Historical Society. During the fellowship in Zürich, Dr. Ferrari will work on methodological challenges of the digital turn in manuscript studies.