Transcribe, Learn, Collaborate
- Transcribe (modern transcriptions of the approximately 300 chansons found in the 11 complete sets of Du Chemin’s chansonniers, with the added ability to download these in various formats, including for use with the free Sibelius Scorch Player that will permit users to display, print, and hear the music without the purchase of additional software. We will also provide blank templates for use by students and others who would like to learn how to transcribe Renaissance notation themselves. We will post partial transcriptions of works that remain incomplete, inviting participants to try their hand at re-composing the remaining pair of voices based on aspects of musical style seen elsewhere in the volumes);
• Learn (with links to the commentaries on the music, to the biographical gazetteer of the composers represented, plus a bibliographical notice for each composition listing information on literary texts, rival settings, other modern editions, or secondary literature);
• Collaborate (electronic forums for exchange of questions, ideas, or information by scholars, students, and performers; links to related resources, announcements of concerts or scholarly conferences, sharing of transcriptions, etc). This will probably take the form of a moderated social media site, perhaps like this one.
February 5th, 2009 at 5:22 pm
This will be a wonderful pedagogical tool. I would certainly use it in masters seminars and my notation class.
February 16th, 2009 at 9:34 am
Guess it’s time for me to go learn Scorch.
I like the “build outward” that you’ve got here — this does seem to be what scholarship is doing.
There needs to be a “send us feedback” — some people (like me) are often hesitant to post, but willing to provide feedback; I often correspond with the host site if something isn’t working right, but wouldn’t want to blast them in a more public forum.
March 14th, 2009 at 2:33 pm
One of the many potential benefits of making facsimiles and transcriptions so freely and easily available may well be that this repertory will be performed more frequently. It would be great to encourage those who do create performances from this online resource to upload sound files of their renditions, and link those files to the relevant transcription and facsimile. Much more satisfying and interesting than the electronic playback! And it would be an incentive to discussions of performance practice issues.