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LOCATION:The Heyman Center\, Second Floor Common Room
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SUMMARY:Distant Listening/Digital Musicology: music21 and Compositio
 nal Similarity in the Late Middle Ages
DESCRIPTION:Digital humanities approaches\, including Franco Moretti’s 
 influential concept of “distant reading\,” have transform
 ed areas of textual scholarship in recent decades\, but such 
 ideas have had less of an impact on musicology.  There wer
 e two reasons for this lack of uptake in music: first\, a gen
 eral dearth of tools for examining hundreds or thousands of 
 musical scores.  Second\, there were few examples of such a
 pproaches’ success in answering difficult questions in mus
 ic history\, necessary to reward the investment of time and e
 nergy in the skills in programming to access these technique
 s.  In this talk\, Cuthbert\, argues that both hurdles have 
 finally been overcome by demonstrating approaches to “dist
 ant listening” to musical scores with the music21 toolki
 t\, developed at M.I.T.\, and its application to finding previ
 ously unknown webs of influence\, citation\, quotation\, perhap
 s even plagiarism\, among a repertory of 3\,000 musical scores
  drawn from European sources from 1300–1430\, including the
  identification of over 30 fragmentary musical works previou
 sly considered too small or illegible for study.
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