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Created: 27 January 2016
Marnix van Berchum
The notion of ‘distant reading’ – introduced by Franco Moretti – gained wide popularity in the emerging field of Digital Humanities. It is interesting to see whether the ideas of Moretti can also be applied to the field of musicology. Stephen Rose and Sandra Tuppen mention Moretti as inspiration for the British library project ‘A Big Data History of Music’.
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Created: 25 January 2016
Digitisation of sources is beneficial for Musicology for several reasons. First of all, it increases the accessibility of historical sources in an unprecedented way. Where before one needed to travel to a library, church, monastery, or private person to examine a certain manuscript, nowadays this can more and more be done online from a distance.