IDEA Music/a is designed to support on-going research and data creation. All data is authored by one researcher and edited by at least one other.
Our researchers are currently working on:
In preparation for launching new music projects in IDEA, we are no longer adding new data to POPP: Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints. When the new IDEA Music/a site (ideamusic.web.unc.edu) launches later this spring, the current site will remain open, under the title POPP: Parsing Ottaviano Petrucci’s Prints, in order to offer users insight into our data trials and our early conceptualizations of music data mining.
Our next project in IDEA Music/a is A New Breed of Critical Edition. This project encompasses 15th- and 16th-century frottole in both manuscripts and prints, and will be powered by a brand new software toolkit, Prospect, developed by Michael Newton at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Digital Innovation Lab (DIL). We are excited about these changes and about the commanding capabilities of Prospect, which include new visualizations like the Network Wheel, Stacked Chart, MultiBlock Map, and a Text Annotator:
As always, we welcome new researchers in IDEA Music | Musica IDEA – please read on for suggestions about how you might participate!
Join us!
Become a permanent researcher.
Contribute performances of frottole.
Organize your class to learn skills and contribute data at the same time! Activities include:
Write synopses of scholarly literature as part of coursework in seminars or as a study aid when preparing for graduate exams.
Perform frottole on a concert and submit recordings for use in an audio widget.
Study and translate Renaissance poetic forms in your Italian literature class.
Create biographical profiles of historical figures active during the Italian Wars.
All contributions are carefully credited, and we will be happy to help you organize. To get started, email IDEA Music | Musica IDEA.