Presentations - MONDAY

Notation and clasification

     see page 10 of program

     11.00-12.30 HSZ C2

          Details at end of this*

Sub-commisision on ISBD & Music - working meeting

     11.0 - 12.30 HS2

          see page 11 of the program

Cataloguing Commission - working meeting - OPEN MEETING - ALL WELCOME

     16.00-17.30 Institute HS2

     Agenda

      1. Terms of reference - approval   

     2. RDA update from North America by Daniel Paradis

          a. French translation

          b. JSC working group

         c. Best practices in music document and our group's involvement with this process

     3. RDA in Europe by Anders Cato

         a. IFLA update

         b. Europe & RDA

     4. OCLC update from Jay Weitz shared by Joseph Hafner

     5. ISBD updates (if any) Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi

     6. Cataloguing wiki - all welcome to join and share information

     7. RDA in Germany by Wibke Weigand

     8. Business and/or updates from the membership

location

Musikwissenschaftliches Institut d.Universität Wien
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*DETAILED PROGRAM

11.00–12.30 MONDAY
Notation and classification

Palmblatthandschriften mit Musik,
ein Beispiel für Verschriftlichung
 

Abstract: 

Balinesische Palmblatthandschriften (Lontare) mit Musik überliefern die einzige vorkoloniale Notation in Südostasien. Es gibt mindestens 140 davon, zur Hälfte im Besitz der Dörfer, zur andern Hälfte in Bibliotheken in Indonesien und Holland. Das Repertoire, das sie überliefern, war ursprüng lich ganz beschränkt auf rituelle höfische Vokalmusik und die Musik der heptatonischer Instrument alensembles, die ebenfalls Ritualen vorbehalten war. Der Vortrag gibt eine Übersicht über die Geschichte der Erforschung dieser Musikhandschriften seit 1921 und die Probleme der Katalogisierung. Im Anschluß daran wird die Zweckbestimmung der Lontare in der Musikpraxis und die Erfindung der Notation for etwa 600 Jahren erörtert.

Monday, 29 July IAML Vienna 2013 – Conference Programme with abstracts (updated: 26 July 2013)
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Speaker: Tilman Seebass (Universität Innsbruck, Innsbruck)
 

Instrumental families, horns and the odd sewing machine: The classification of musical instruments from bibliographic and organological perspectives
 

Abstract:
The arrangement of musical instruments is an important feature of any classification scheme of music; musical medium is usually at the core of any music classification scheme and musical
instruments are the nucleus of this medium. However, there is another discipline which is centred on the arrangement of musical instruments: unsurprisingly, organology – the study of musical instruments – utilises both organologist-imposed classification schemes and indigenous instrument categorisation schemes to make sense of the musical instrument world. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to explore how the two very different disciplines of knowledge organisation and organology treat the arrangement of musical instruments, and considers what we can learn from comparing these approaches. In order to analyse the general concept of the bibliographic classification of instruments three specific music classification schemes have been selected as exemplars of this type of classification: British Catalogue of Music classification (BCM), Dickinson classification and Pethes’ Flexible classification. Amongst other differences, these
schemes cover different time periods, are part of different classification traditions and have different functions. First, the general categorisation of instruments into “families” will be explored within each of the three schemes. These categories will be compared to the broad categories of organological taxonomies and the origins of the perennial “strings-woodwind-brass-percussion” quartet will be investigated. Next, order within various categories will be compared across the schemes, looking at how different ordering systems are used and how they compare to organological taxonomies. The topic of placing instruments which straddle traditional categories, such as the French horn and the saxhorn, will also be addressed from both
a bibliographic and organological perspective. These examinations of order will include a survey of unusual and unexpected instruments in the three schemes – the presence of “sewing machines” within BCM is but one example – seeing how position within classification hierarchy and ideas from organological classification might help us to put these anomalous in
struments into context. Finally, the paper will consider the cross-fertilisation of bibliographic classification schemes and their organology cousins. This will include an exploration of the influence of the important organology classification scheme “Hornbostel and Sachs” on various bibliographic schemes. An analysis of the arrangement of instruments from this dual perspective will not only provide insights about the arrangement and categorisation of musical instruments themselves, but also help to see more generally the symbiosis between the bibliographical classification of music and other forms of musical classification.

Speaker: Deborah Lee (City University London, London)
 

Universal Instrumentation Code
Abstract:
The Universal Instrumentation Code is a new and open classification system developed by my Company for musical parts which is designed to allow for efficient storage and retrieval of musical works based on the instrumentation. In addition this system provides the ability to create human-readable instrumentation lists which are not bound to any particular language or convention so that a user and not the publisher can decide how the information is presented. This system will become the foundation of our software systems that are in daily use by many of the world's largest music publishers. An outline of the system is here: https://docs.google.com/ presentation/d/1UCvFX3d_4rNK8i_z8rCpfchl6FZEfZREgwfFnGq13V4/edit. At the conference I plan to present a paper that describes in detail how the system works, and provide practical examples of its application.

Speaker: Peter Grimshaw (BTM Innovation Pty Ltd, Adelaide), co-authors: Mark Carroll (University of Adelaide), James Koehne (University of Adelaide)

Presented by the Programme Committee
Chair: Joseph Hafner (McGill University, Montréal)