About IncipitSearch
IncipitSearch is a search engine for music-incipits. Incipts are a pragmatic approach for the cataloguing of notated music, in which a few bars of a score are transcribed. Concurrently, statements about the melodic characteristics of the music can occasionally be made on basis of these short fragments. Still, the IncipitSearch considers itself primarily as a counterpart to conventional thematic-bibliographical catalogues, as they have been presented in printed form for a long time.
You can find a list of the repositories which are searchable with the IncipitSearch here. In the long run, the connection of further repositories can enable a comprehensive search for musical material from sources, catalogues and editions.
Search
The displayed keyboard enables you to enter search queries in the search field. Plaine & Easie Code is used as a standard syntax for the coding of the notes and can also be directly entered in the search field. Next to the found incipts, the result list also provides backlinks to the entries in the respective catalogue.
Material and presentations
Talks and Presentations
- 27.07.2018 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: IncipitSearch - Interlinking Musicological Repositories, Presentation, IAML 2018 Leipzig
- 26.07.2018 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: Exchanging musical metdata with IncipitSearch, Poster, IAML 2018 Leipzig
- 28.06.2018 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: IncipitSearch - Interlinking Musicological Repositories, Presentation, DH2018 Mexico Stadt
- 01.03.2018 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: IncipitSearch - Vernetzung musikwissenschaftlicher Vorhaben, Poster, DHd2018 Köln
- 05.12.2017 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: IncipitSearch Demo, Tools Gallery, Digital Humanities Austria Konferenz, Innsbruck.
- 18.10.2017 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: IncipitSearch. Ein offener Webservice zur Aggregation und Suche notierter Musik, Presentation, AG eHumanities, Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur | Mainz.
- 28.09.2017 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: Perspektiven digitaler Werkverzeichnisse: IncipitSearch am Beispiel der Gluck Gesamtausgabe, Poster, Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung 2017, Kassel.
- 21.09.2017 | Anna Neovesky, Frederic von Vlahovits: IncipitSearch am Beispiel der Gluck-Gesamtausgabe - Poster, DH-RMU, Digital Humanities im Rhein-Main-Verbund 2017, Mainz.
- 14.09.2016 | Michael Haft, Anna Neovesky, Gabriel Reimers: Digitale Nachhaltigkeit von Forschungsanwendungen durch Microservices, Presentation, FORGE 2016, Hamburg.
Publications
Anna Neovesky: ...und was machen wir nun mit den Daten? Nutzungsszenarien und deren Voraussetzungen am Beispiel von Akademievorhaben. in: Beitragsarchiv zur des Internationalen Kongresses der Gesellschaft für Musikforschung, Mainz 2016 – »Wege der Musikwissenschaft«, hrsg. von Gabriele Buschmeier und Klaus Pietschmann [erscheint 2018]. Preprint: DOI:10.5281/zenodo.1175633.
Michael Haft, Anna Neovesky, Gabriel Reimers: Digitale Nachhaltigkeit von Forschungsanwendungen durch Microservices, in: Jenseits der Daten – Nachhaltigkeit für Forschungsanwendungen und Software. FORGE 2016 Book of Abstracts, S. 23–24.
License
IncipitSearch is developed by the Digital Academy of the Academy of Sciences and Literature | Mainz and is licensed under a MIT license.
Project team
Anna Neovesky, M.A. (idea, concept, application development, data processing)
Dipl.-Inf. Gabriel Reimers (idea, concept, application development)
Frederic von Vlahovits, M.A. (frontend-development, design, application development)
Prof. Torsten Schrade (metadata schema, LOD, DevOps)
Assisted by
Paulina Amelung (english translation)
Julia Dolhoff (code standardisation)
Lisa Kolodzie (proof-of-Concept annotation of analogue repositories)
Sebastian Lange (code standardisation)
Patrick Toschka (code standardisation)