Cantus Ultimus Workshop: Building the ideal digital music library for plainchant

This workshop is organized by CIRMMT Research Axis 3 (Musical information retrieval, archiving and motion capture). It will take place on September 8th, in A832 (New Music Building). This workshop is free and open to all. Registration is required.

Workshops and Research Meetings
September 08, 2012
12:00 - 16:30
A832, New Music Building, 527 Sherbrooke St. West.
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Registration

Registration is mandatory as seating is limited (30 seats): Cantus Ultimus workshp - registration 

Description

 

Description:
This workshop will explore the potential applications of SIMSSA (Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis) technologies developed at CIRMMT for enhancing the Cantus database, especially towards implementing full-music search of plainchant manuscripts. 

Guests/Speakers

  • Jennifer Bain, Dalhousie University
  • Gregory Burlet, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
  • Julie Cumming, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
  • Ichiro Fujinaga, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
  • Andrew Hankinson, CIRMMT, Schulich School of Music, McGill University
  • Kate Helsen, Independent scholar
  • Debra Lacoste, University of Waterloo
  • Saining Li, School of Computer Science, McGill University
  • Wendy Liu, School of Computer Science, McGill University

Schedule

  • 11:00-11:20 Ichiro Fujinaga: “Introduction to SIMSSA”
  • 11:20-11:40 Debra Lacoste: “A brief history of the Cantus Database”
  • 11:40-12:00 Kate Helsen: “Computer-aided analysis of the Great Responsories of the Divine Office”
  • 12:20-12:40 Julie Cumming: “ELVIS: Approaches and ideas”
  • 12:40-13:00 Jennifer Bain: "Why would we want full-text search capability?"
  • 13:00-14:00 Lunch
  • 14:00-14:30 Andrew Hankinson: “An introduction to Rodan”
  • 14:15-14:30 Wendy Liu: “Diva.js A web-based document viewer for high-resolution images”
  • 14:30-14:45 Gregory Burlet “Neon.js: A web-based neume notation editor”
  • 15:00-15:15 Gabriel Vigliensoni and Ichiro Fujinaga: “Shape classification and pitch detection in manuscript sources”
  • 15:15-15:30 Saining Li: “Introduction to digital prosopography”