Playing with a Web of Music: Connecting and Enriching Online Music Repositories [chapter]

2021 Music - Media - History  
Classical music represents both a treasured cultural heritage and a living, contemporary tradition, perpetuated and continuously reinterpreted through practice, performance, scholarly analysis, and listening enjoyment. Music libraries and archives assemble, preserve, and organize classical music resources for retrieval, but currently underserve the more dynamic aspects of our interactions with this repertoire. Enriching these interactions is important in order to engage, broaden, and diversify
more » ... he classical music audience, thus sustaining this tradition. 2 The EU Horizons 2020-funded TROMPA project 3 -Towards Richer Online Music Public-domain Archives-is addressing this challenge by combining music information retrieval (MIR) technologies and crowd-sourcing approaches to publish, interlink, contextualize, and augment public-domain classical music resources. 4 Building on large existing music repositories, TROMPA provides services for the discovery, enhancement, and contribution of musical scores, recordings, analyses, and interpretations, applying 1 This publication incorporates and expands on text from "Interweaving and enriching digital music collections for scholarship, performance, and enjoyment" by authors
doi:10.14361/9783839451458-015 fatcat:obkakxhcu5exfb6pv22vsmndqu