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Development 2019-21
Institutions Goldsmiths, University of London; mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Project TROMPA
Description Multimedia annotation environment for music scholars centred around digital score encodings
Further details https://github.com/trompamusic/music-scholars-annotator
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code https://github.com/trompamusic/music-scholars-annotator
Related publications Weigl, Goebl, Baker, Crawford, Zubani, Gkiokas, Paez, Porter, & Santos. ‘Notes on the Music: A social data infrastructure for music annotation’ (DLfM ‘21) [To appear]
Funder EU Horizon 2020 (grant agreement No 770376)

 

Development 2020-21
Institutions University of Oxford
Description ‘Hello MELD’ are a series of incrementally more complex MELD apps designed to be used (i) as a graded set of compatibility tests for new versions of the MELD framework, and (ii) as learning/teaching examples for new developers unfamiliar with MELD apps.
Further details https://github.com/oerc-music/meld-hello-meld
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code https://github.com/oerc-music/meld-hello-meld
Funder Software Sustainability Institute (SSI)

 

Development 2018-20
Institutions University of Oxford
Project Unlocking Musicology
Description The Lohengrin TimeMachine app, consists of video and textual musicological essays supported by an interactive digital companion. The digital companion allows a user to browse and compare all the occurrences of a motive in the opera Lohengrin, viewing them by text, vocal score and orchestration, with detailed views, segment labelling, audio excerpts and textual commentaries supporting the exploration. The video and essay modes show live links into the companion as the viewer or reader progresses through the narrative.
Further details https://um.web.ox.ac.uk/lohengrin
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code https://github.com/oerc-music/ForbiddenQuestion
Related publications Lewis, Page & Dreyfus, ‘Narratives and exploration in a musicology app: supporting scholarly argument with the Lohengrin TimeMachine’ (DLfM 2021) [To appear]
Funder AHRC (Project reference: AH/R004803/1)

 

Development 2019-21
Institutions mdw - University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna
Project TROMPA
Description A rehearsal companion for piano players. Rehearsal attempts are recorded through CLARA’s web interface, via WebMIDI. CLARA automatically aligns each rehearsal attempt to the digital score, supporting review, analysis, and comparison of different attempts according to performance tempo, dynamics, and errors (inserted / omitted notes).
Further details https://iwk.mdw.ac.at/trompa-clara/
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code https://github.com/trompamusic/clara
Related publications Weigl, Goebl, Baker, Crawford, Zubani, Gkiokas, Paez, Porter, & Santos, ‘Notes on the Music: A social data infrastructure for music annotation’ (DLfM 2021) [To appear]; Weigl & Goebl, Rehearsal encodings with a social life (MEC 2020)
Funder EU Horizon 2020 (grant agreement No 770376)

 

Development 2018-19
Institutions University of Oxford
Project Unlocking Musicology
Description A proof-of-concept MELD-enhanced interface to explore New York Philharmonic archivist Barbara Haws’s Listening Through Time podcast.
Further details https://um.web.ox.ac.uk/nyphil
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code (private repository due to third party content)
Funder AHRC (Project reference: AH/R004803/1)

 

Development 2019
Institutions University of Oxford
Project FAST
Description A simple development tool for testing and experimenting with MELD annotations in LDP containers. This tool does not use 'meld-clients-core', or any of the specialist implementations in 'meld-web-services'.  It interacts with MELD data solely via LDP and Solid interfaces (and, in particular, works with Solid pod authentication).
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code https://github.com/oerc-music/meld-cli-tools
Funder EPSRC (Project reference: EP/L019981/1)

 

Development 2017-18
Institutions University of Oxford
Project Digital Delius
Description The British Library maintains an educational website, ‘Discovering Music’, in which online visitors are guided to explore the digital resources of the library through explanatory context provided by bespoke authored articles. The ‘Delius in Performance’ app is an MELD version of a Discovering Music article of the same title, authored by Joanna Bullivant, demonstrating the ways by which we can enhance the multimedia interactivity of music materials to better illustrate and explain the author’s narrative.
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code (private repository due to third party content)
Related publications Lewis, Weigl, Bullivant & Page, Publishing musicology using multimedia digital libraries: creating interactive articles through a framework for linked data and MEI (DLfM 2018)
Funder AHRC (Project reference: AH/P009360/1)

 

Development 2017-18
Institutions University of Oxford
Project Digital Delius
Description The Delius String Quartet annotation app was developed such that an annotator can use a tablet interface to record, in real time, performance adjustments made during a taught masterclass. These annotations were used as a structured interface into a video of the masterclass, which can be accessed interactively, via the annotations, in a second playback app.
MELD compatibility 2.0
Source code https://github.com/oerc-music/delius-annotation (annotation)
https://github.com/oerc-music/delius-annotation (playback)
Related publications Lewis, Weigl, & Page, Musicological Observations During Rehearsal and Performance: a Linked Data Digital Library for Annotations (DLfM 2019)
Funder AHRC (Project reference: AH/P009360/1)

 

Development 2016-18
Institutions University of Oxford
Project FAST
Description The first stable public release of the MELD framework, primarily developed within the FAST project.
Further details https://meld.web.ox.ac.uk/
Source code https://github.com/oerc-music/meld
Related publications Weigl & Page, A Framework for Distributed Semantic Annotation of Musical Score: “Take It to the Bridge!” (ISMIR 2017)
Funder EPSRC (Project reference: EP/L019981/1)

 

Development 2016-17
Institutions University of Nottingham & University of Oxford
Project FAST
Description Climb! Is a non-linear composition written for Disklavier and electronics written by Maria Kallionpää. The pianist undertakes a metaphorical journey up a mountain, playing musical codes that are hidden within the score to control their path and trigger musical and visual effects, including the piano engaging them in an unusual physical duet. MELD forms a part of the software platform which mediates between the performer, composition, and instruments.
Further details https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/research/groups/mixedrealitylab/works/climb...
MELD compatibility 0.1.0 (unmaintained)
Source code https://github.com/oerc-music/climb-score-archive
Related publications Kallionpää, Greenhalgh et al. Composing and realising a game-like performance for Disklavier and electronics (NIME 2017); Benford, Greenhalgh et al. Designing the Audience Journey through Repeated Experiences (CHI 2018)
Funder EPSRC (Project reference: EP/L019981/1)

 

Development 2016-17
Institutions University of Oxford
Project FAST
Description An early MELD implementation, demonstrating a proof-of-concept which applies linked Web Annotations to rendered MEI scores.
MELD compatibility 0.2.0 (unmaintained)
Related publications Weigl & Page, A Framework for Distributed Semantic Annotation of Musical Score: “Take It to the Bridge!” (ISMIR 2017)
Funder EPSRC (Project reference: EP/L019981/1)