A model for annotating musical versions and arrangements across multiple documents and media
David M Lewis, Elisabete Shibata, Mark Saccomano, Lisa Rosendahl, Johannes Kepper, Andrew Hankinson, Christine Siegert, Kevin Page · 2022
We present a model for the annotation of musical works, where the annotations are created with respect to a conceptual abstraction of the music instead of directly to concrete encodings. This supports musicologists in constructing arguments about musical elements that occur in multiple digital library sources (or other web resources), that recur across a work, or that appear in different forms in different arrangements. It provides a way of discussing musical content without tying that discourse to the location, notation or medium of the content, allowing evidence from multiple libraries and in different formats to be brought together to support musicological assertions.