POPP: Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints

POPP: Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints, in order to offer users insight into our data trials and our early conceptualizations of music data mining.

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Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints  explores what it means to read the arcane notation and page designs of 16th-century music. With an initial focus on the frottola (song) books of the first music printer, Ottaviano Petrucci, POPP illustrates applications of 16th-century music theory, pedagogy, and printing practices to this repertory, together with research about the history, performance practices, and patronage of these songs and the people who created them.

Much of what we do in IDEA is to build bridges across disciplines, creating projects where scholars, artists, and performers in a variety of fields contribute their expertise toward a common goal. Thus, IDEA’s research teams include Italian scholars as well as Americans, experts in Italian literature, ceramics, archival studies, early printing, music history, and performance. The research that has gone into Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints encompasses a variety of materials as well; seven Collections comprise our database: a documents Archive, Events, Library, Objects, People, Places, and Repertory. In the DH Press visualizations, data records are classified by Collection, a classification that is often used to sort, filter, or color-code information.

POPP: Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints originated as the focus of a Faculty Fellowship sponsored by the Institute for the Arts & Humanities and the Digital Innovations Lab at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. During my fellowship year, I had the great good fortune to work in consultation and collaboration with diverse groups of insightful and talented scholars, scientists, and performers – including the members of the University of North Carolina’s Institute for the Arts & Humanities Faculty Seminar in fall 2014, the staff of UNC’s Digital Innovations Lab, the members of my Medieval and Early Modern Studies seminar “Big Data for Intimate Spaces” which took place in Chapel Hill during a winter storm in February/March 2015, and the contributors to my film Ad tempo taci: Songs for Isabella d’Este, recorded in Mantua during a whirlwind two days in May 2015.

My profound thanks go to them all, as well as to the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek in Munich, the Carolina Digital Humanities Initiative and its Faculty Fellowship Program, co-sponsored by the Digital Innovation Lab and the Institute for the Arts & Humanities, UNC’s Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program, and to the faculty of the Department of Music for supporting this work.

—Anne MacNeil

PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR | RESPONSABILE SCIENTIFICO

Anne MacNeil, PhD
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Co-Director, IDEA

CO-PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATORS | CO-RESPONSABILI SCIENTIFICI

Samuel Brannon, PhD
Richmond, Virginia

Karen Atkins
Durham, North Carolina

RESEARCH | RICERCA

Marco Beasley
Genova

Franco Pavan
Conservatorio di Verona
Evaristo Felice Dall’Abaco

Megan Eagen, PhD
Durham, North Carolina

Aurora De Santis
Milano

TECHNOLOGY | TECNOLOGIA

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Digital Innovation Lab
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

SUPPORT | SOSTEGNO

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Music Department
Institute for the Arts & Humanities
Digital Innovation Lab
Edwin H. and Myrtice Logue Yoder Faculty Fellowship

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