On 22/08/16 21:04, Adam Bartlett wrote:
Hello All,
Some of you might have known Gregoire , a notation tool originally
written by someone from Solemnes IIRC. It has been long time dead,
worked only on Windows XP. I just checked the website again, and now
there seems to be a Windows 7 compatible version. I have not been able
to test it yet. The website has sort of been hijacked, I remember in
the past one could share documents there, but the link is empty now. Pity
http://gregoire.tele.free.fr/index.php
Herman Viaene
A week ago I attended the Gregorian Institute of Canada Colloquium in
Toronto which was, among other things, dedicated to digital chant
research technologies and to the legacy of one of its pioneers, Andrew
Hughes.
Many scholars working in digital chant research technologies
(including the Cantus Database, SIMSSA, among others) were present and
the state of chant manuscript encoding and database development was
discussed with an eye toward future goals and priorities.
A few of us in attendance were Gregorio users and promoters, though
many of those doing strict academic research were unfamiliar with the
platform and its encoding languages. A conversation began about the
possibility of linking the work and encoding languages of Gregorio
with some of these research efforts, many of which are well staffed
and funded.
The conversations tended toward a technology called MEI
<http://music-encoding.org/> (Music Coding Initiative) which the
researchers believe can contain all of the needed information in chant
manuscripts for effective querying, comparative analysis, etc. I know
that I have made use of Gregobase, however, for effective research
queries and tend to think that GABC, and, potentially, NABC are
systematic and thorough enough to achieve the same goal. The group
appears to see MEI as the right language for research while GABC /
NABC are perhaps best for producing practical editions.
My question: I wonder if it might be possible to find a way to allow
GABC / NABC to communicate and share data with MEI?
For those interested in research, the tools that the musicological
community could bring to the table appear to be quite immense. It
seems that a digital Paleography Workshop could be assembled quite
quickly with these tools—with Gregobase and all of the work done by
Cantus, among others, a firm foundation is already in place. Such an
effort could help those among us who are interested in producing more
critical performance editions of the chant—per the request of
Sacrosanctum Concilum 117—to do so rather easily and even
collaboratively.
Is anyone here interested in this idea? Or of collaborating with the
Cantus group, or of finding ways to port GABC / NABC code over to
databases for musicological research?
I would be curious to know the thoughts of the Gregorio community on
these ideas.
Yours faithfully,
Adam Bartlett
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