Knowledge Commons | Elsa De Luca | Activity https://hcommons.org/members/elsadl/activity/ Activity feed for Elsa De Luca. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 09:12:11 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 6349716e5b4be484d96352f53131f039 Elsa De Luca uploaded the file: Brainstorming on the Encoding of Eastern Neumes: Middle-Byzantine Notation as a Case-Study to "Encoding Cultures" Joint MEC and TEI Conference https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1861179/ Mon, 09 Oct 2023 07:42:01 -0400 Authors: De Luca, Elsa / Alexandru, Maria / Fujinaga, Ichiro
ABSTRACT
The effort to encode neumatic notations has primarily focused on Western European repertories, with little attention given to the neumes employed in the East. To address this gap, we propose to apply our knowledge of the MEI Neumes Module and Eastern notations to raise awareness…[Read more]

]]> 0 ed451e79df958be2048cce4db406c11b Elsa De Luca changed their profile picture https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1833632/ Fri, 10 Feb 2023 05:23:50 -0500 0 cda7df240a124d0966170c955123c3df Elsa De Luca deposited Rehearsal encodings with a social life in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702132/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:23 -0400 MEI-encoded scores are versatile music information resources representing musical meaning within a finely addressable XML structure. The Verovio MEI engraver reflects the hierarchy and identifiers of these encodings into its generated SVG output, supporting presentation of digital scores as richly interactive Web applications. Typical MEI…[Read more]

]]> 0 f28d56997c2971ba15b4773e4541f0a7 Elsa De Luca deposited Retrieving Music Semantics from Optical Music Recognition by Machine Translation in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702131/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:21 -0400 In this paper, we apply machine translation techniques to solve one of the central problems in the field of optical music recognition: extracting the semantics of a sequence of music characters. So far, this problem has been approached through heuristics and grammars, which are not generalizable solutions. We borrowed the seq2seq model and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 76170eb4e391647d99ccd3c6844a3878 Elsa De Luca deposited MEI and Verovio for MIR: A Minimal Computing Approach in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702130/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:19 -0400 While the increase in digital editions, online corpora, and browsable databases of encoded music presents an extraordinary resource for contemporary music scholarship, using these databases for computational research remains a complex endeavor. Although norms and standards have begun to emerge, and interoperability among different formats is often…[Read more]

]]> 0 081d253d0920b71ac283d5e74bcfde1e Elsa De Luca deposited Editing Italian Madrigals in the Digital World: The Tasso in Music Project in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702129/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:16 -0400 Despite the interdisciplinary nature of the Italian madrigal—a genre in which poetry and music often stand on equal footing—critical editions of this repertoire tend to focus primarily on the musical text, devoting limited attention to the often-complex philological tradition of the poems set to music. Likewise, most critical editions are dev…[Read more]

]]> 0 8708a9716e3e13be4443c204d1c7ab92 Elsa De Luca deposited IIIF-based lyric and neume editor for square-notation manuscripts in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702128/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:14 -0400 In this paper we introduce a set of improvements to Neon, an online square-notation music editor based on the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) file format. The enhancements extend the functionality of Neon to the editing of lyrics and single-session editing of entire manuscripts and…[Read more]

]]> 0 36dceedf18280a0252b1dd047e21e10d Elsa De Luca deposited Multimedia from the 17th-Century Book to the 21st-Century Web: a playable digital edition of Michael Maier’s "Atalanta fugiens" in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702127/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:12 -0400 Poster

]]> 0 6b826e99d4504a4f5916399e4209e0c3 Elsa De Luca deposited Do visual features matter? Studies in phylogenetic analysis of mensural music in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702126/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:08 -0400 This paper reports on the task of developing concepts for a computational analysis of the transmission of mensural music based on concepts of phylogenetic analysis. Since the analysis of transmission aims for the reconstruction of relations between sources, it focuses on the differences of rather similar items. Therefore, it is necessary to find…[Read more]

]]> 0 fea861876ff3890832343b2b34a020d5 Elsa De Luca deposited Probstücke Digital in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702125/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:05 -0400 In 1731, Johann Mattheson writes in the preface to the Große Generalbass-Schule: “The complaint, however, which I made in the first edition of this Organisten-Probe about the badly printed notes, is still in its full strength, and patience is the only remedy.” Probstücke Digital is an open and critical digital edition project of the 24 test piece…[Read more]

]]> 0 ea0e5e0a106ce2c6073e93e88cda53dd Elsa De Luca deposited Preventing conversion failure across encoding formats: A transcription protocol and representation scheme considerations in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702124/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:39:03 -0400 Conversion issues across musical symbolic representations, such as musicXML, MEI, and humdrum, are well known. Often, these depend on methodological choices undertaken during the generation and processing of the data. For a better under-standing of this topic, we present a transcription protocol, result of trial and error transcription attempts…[Read more]

]]> 0 ad817332e522cff99e1b24ce88d740fc Elsa De Luca deposited MusicDiff: A Diff Tool for MEI in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702123/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:38:59 -0400 For musicologists, the collation of multiple sources of the same work is a frequent task. By comparing different witnesses, they seek to identify variation, describe dependencies, and ultimately understand the genesis and transmission of (musical) works. Obviously, the need for such comparison is independent from the medium in which a musical work…[Read more]

]]> 0 1fd35d6b3eadd250115e27e12e5bc565 Elsa De Luca deposited Beethovens Werkstatt on the Test Bench in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702118/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:38:03 -0400 In my master thesis I am working on the analysis of scriptural problems, trying to discuss the chronology of Ludwig van Beethoven’s entries in the autograph of his Flohlied op. 75, no. 3. This is in order to examine the efficiency of the so-called VideApp of the research project Beethovens Werkstatt which studies sketches and manuscripts of B…[Read more]

]]> 0 be6650dcf6f9a1d857918df70ae4d728 Elsa De Luca deposited Harmalysis: A language for the annotation of roman numerals in symbolic music representations in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702117/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:38:01 -0400 High-quality annotations of harmonic analysis are scarce. Furthermore, the existing data usually follows different conventions for spelling scale degrees, inversions, and special chords (e.g., cadential six-four). There have been efforts for standardizing the notation of harmonic analysis annotations, however, these have not been very successful…[Read more]

]]> 0 6fd21edb1cb4bf5d9a6dc4b7650ec8b4 Elsa De Luca deposited MIDI 2.0: Promises and Challenges in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702116/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:37:59 -0400 MIDI, the musical instrument digital interface, is a highly successful protocol for conveying and, through the use of Standard MIDI Files, representing musical performance information. However, it lacks the ability to convey notation information. The newly approved MIDI 2.0 protocol gives us a chance to rectify that by including notation…[Read more]

]]> 0 3b9779b2bb2d3503ed94ad9084e060ed Elsa De Luca deposited Implementing the Enhancing Music Addressability API for MusicXML in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702115/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:37:57 -0400 Poster

]]> 0 b9c6f9381abef1a0f9eb95d25f8ff5e0 Elsa De Luca deposited Figured Bass Encodings for Bach Chorales in Various Symbolic Formats: A Case Study in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702114/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:37:55 -0400 The computational study of figured bass remains an under-researched topic, likely due to the lack of machine-
readable datasets. This paper is intended to address the paucity of digital figured bass data by 1) investigating procedures for systematically annotating symbolic music files with figured bass, and 2) producing and releasing a model…[Read more]

]]> 0 050f09523ae3a8481be4fa28c95f0afd Elsa De Luca deposited Traversing Eighteenth-Century Networks of Operatic Fame in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702113/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:37:52 -0400 This paper employs a digital project entitled “Visualizing Operatic Fame” to delve into three major issues in graph theory and network science: searching and pathfinding, influencers and hubs, and clusters and communities.

]]> 0 202485f705ced31dc3ca75cf225623e3 Elsa De Luca deposited Computer-Aided Analysis Across the Tonal Divide: Cross-Stylistic Applications of the Discrete Fourier Transform in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702112/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:37:48 -0400 The discrete Fourier transform is a mathematically robust way of modeling various musical phenomena. I use the music21 Python module to interpret the pitch classes of an encoded musical score through the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). This methodology offers a broad view of the backgrounded scales and pitch-class collections of a piece. I have…[Read more]

]]> 0 0850d4ec2798d2eefbdb93e232464c01 Elsa De Luca deposited Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 26-29 May, 2020 Tufts University, Boston (USA). Edited by Elsa De Luca and Julia Flanders in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702107/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:32:52 -0400 Conference proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference 2020 with Foreword by Richard Freedman and Anna J. Kijas.

]]> 0 67634cec0819ca575d82478aab69624c Elsa De Luca deposited The forgotten classroom? Bringing music encoding to a new generation in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702106/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:32:49 -0400 Digital methods have begun to make their way into the research practices of music scholars, and most this insurgence can be attributed to the rise of the discipline of music technology. Though music encoding is becoming increasingly prevalent among the research and teaching methodologies of music scholars, evidence gathered from course…[Read more]

]]> 0 34b745e84d8c6414fbd7f7915a159d83 Elsa De Luca deposited Crafting TabMEI, a Module for Encoding Instrumental Tablatures in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702105/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:32:47 -0400 In this progress report, we describe the issues encountered during the design and implementation of TabMEI, a new MEI module for encoding instrumental tablatures. We discuss the main challenges faced and lay out our workflow for implementing the TabMEI module. In addition, we present a number of example encodings, and we describe anticipated…[Read more]

]]> 0 e98f14f255ee9364e4663c01d571747d Elsa De Luca deposited Next Steps for Measuring Polyphony: A Prototype Editor for Encoding Mensural Music in the group Music Encoding Initiative https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1702104/ Thu, 23 Jul 2020 02:32:44 -0400 Poster

]]> 0 16b6aa71dba22451de31e17197523c5f Elsa De Luca deposited Rehearsal encodings with a social life https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701897/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:58:29 -0400 MEI-encoded scores are versatile music information resources representing musical meaning within a finely addressable XML structure. The Verovio MEI engraver reflects the hierarchy and identifiers of these encodings into its generated SVG output, supporting presentation of digital scores as richly interactive Web applications. Typical MEI…[Read more]

]]> 0 6f58b113540e6f0a4f02129ef234ddc1 Elsa De Luca deposited Retrieving Music Semantics from Optical Music Recognition by Machine Translation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701891/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:52:20 -0400 In this paper, we apply machine translation techniques to solve one of the central problems in the field of optical music recognition: extracting the semantics of a sequence of music characters. So far, this problem has been approached through heuristics and grammars, which are not generalizable solutions. We borrowed the seq2seq model and the…[Read more]

]]> 0 75328a95fdd858e8a4defed12c27e700 Elsa De Luca deposited MEI and Verovio for MIR: A Minimal Computing Approach https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701889/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:42:01 -0400 While the increase in digital editions, online corpora, and browsable databases of encoded music presents an extraordinary resource for contemporary music scholarship, using these databases for computational research remains a complex endeavor. Although norms and standards have begun to emerge, and interoperability among different formats is often…[Read more]

]]> 0 5f864d81b5499bf296f6f27dd907111f Elsa De Luca deposited Editing Italian Madrigals in the Digital World: The Tasso in Music Project https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701887/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:35:24 -0400 Despite the interdisciplinary nature of the Italian madrigal—a genre in which poetry and music often stand on equal footing—critical editions of this repertoire tend to focus primarily on the musical text, devoting limited attention to the often-complex philological tradition of the poems set to music. Likewise, most critical editions are dev…[Read more]

]]> 0 50b1ac9b262c12730ca4425c903c6a66 Elsa De Luca deposited IIIF-based lyric and neume editor for square-notation manuscripts https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701886/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:28:19 -0400 In this paper we introduce a set of improvements to Neon, an online square-notation music editor based on the International Image Interoperability Framework (IIIF) and the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) file format. The enhancements extend the functionality of Neon to the editing of lyrics and single-session editing of entire manuscripts and…[Read more]

]]> 0 e686b697b3fe0e0c28a8a868f7920d64 Elsa De Luca deposited Multimedia from the 17th-Century Book to the 21st-Century Web: a playable digital edition of Michael Maier’s "Atalanta fugiens" https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701878/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:20:01 -0400 Poster

]]> 0 ca80de9379804a78a10d5f9cbaf45fa5 Elsa De Luca deposited Do visual features matter? Studies in phylogenetic analysis of mensural music https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701875/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:14:40 -0400 This paper reports on the task of developing concepts for a computational analysis of the transmission of mensural music based on concepts of phylogenetic analysis. Since the analysis of transmission aims for the reconstruction of relations between sources, it focuses on the differences of rather similar items. Therefore, it is necessary to find…[Read more]

]]> 0 2f7ef78d4332ff26eacfa6af34b378ec Elsa De Luca deposited Probstücke Digital https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701873/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:08:41 -0400 In 1731, Johann Mattheson writes in the preface to the Große Generalbass-Schule: “The complaint, however, which I made in the first edition of this Organisten-Probe about the badly printed notes, is still in its full strength, and patience is the only remedy.” Probstücke Digital is an open and critical digital edition project of the 24 test piece…[Read more]

]]> 0 b96c96529d648afa2e8c6ad504f9d2b0 Elsa De Luca deposited Preventing conversion failure across encoding formats: A transcription protocol and representation scheme considerations https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701867/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 16:00:08 -0400 Conversion issues across musical symbolic representations, such as musicXML, MEI, and humdrum, are well known. Often, these depend on methodological choices undertaken during the generation and processing of the data. For a better under-standing of this topic, we present a transcription protocol, result of trial and error transcription attempts…[Read more]

]]> 0 aec2c5491de7a81906c4446260c79df0 Elsa De Luca deposited MusicDiff: A Diff Tool for MEI https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701862/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:55:17 -0400 For musicologists, the collation of multiple sources of the same work is a frequent task. By comparing different witnesses, they seek to identify variation, describe dependencies, and ultimately understand the genesis and transmission of (musical) works. Obviously, the need for such comparison is independent from the medium in which a musical work…[Read more]

]]> 0 9b2e21e6d326a017dac7a56d561cb963 Elsa De Luca deposited Beethovens Werkstatt on the Test Bench https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701848/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:44:26 -0400 In my master thesis I am working on the analysis of scriptural problems, trying to discuss the chronology of Ludwig van Beethoven’s entries in the autograph of his Flohlied op. 75, no. 3. This is in order to examine the efficiency of the so-called VideApp of the research project Beethovens Werkstatt which studies sketches and manuscripts of B…[Read more]

]]> 0 cb7848d7fdc780609b22673f6bb1d730 Elsa De Luca deposited Harmalysis: A language for the annotation of roman numerals in symbolic music representations https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701819/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:17:48 -0400 High-quality annotations of harmonic analysis are scarce. Furthermore, the existing data usually follows different conventions for spelling scale degrees, inversions, and special chords (e.g., cadential six-four). There have been efforts for standardizing the notation of harmonic analysis annotations, however, these have not been very successful…[Read more]

]]> 0 761017bd23fed32844c4677ca5156ac0 Elsa De Luca deposited MIDI 2.0: Promises and Challenges https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701808/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 15:05:58 -0400 MIDI, the musical instrument digital interface, is a highly successful protocol for conveying and, through the use of Standard MIDI Files, representing musical performance information. However, it lacks the ability to convey notation information. The newly approved MIDI 2.0 protocol gives us a chance to rectify that by including notation…[Read more]

]]> 0 51a5874de8f1907ac0b76d35b2ef7823 Elsa De Luca deposited Implementing the Enhancing Music Addressability API for MusicXML https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701806/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:59:28 -0400 Poster

]]> 0 8588b91f24cacd856caad1d0f281f62a Elsa De Luca deposited Figured Bass Encodings for Bach Chorales in Various Symbolic Formats: A Case Study https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701792/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:42:48 -0400 The computational study of figured bass remains an under-researched topic, likely due to the lack of machine-
readable datasets. This paper is intended to address the paucity of digital figured bass data by 1) investigating procedures for systematically annotating symbolic music files with figured bass, and 2) producing and releasing a model…[Read more]

]]> 0 311d5e9d87560f23fb8f04b8c008cbde Elsa De Luca deposited Traversing Eighteenth-Century Networks of Operatic Fame https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701784/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:17:26 -0400 This paper employs a digital project entitled “Visualizing Operatic Fame” to delve into three major issues in graph theory and network science: searching and pathfinding, influencers and hubs, and clusters and communities.

]]> 0 f685a8d3f88bd27d894214b385b0cc4b Elsa De Luca deposited Computer-Aided Analysis Across the Tonal Divide: Cross-Stylistic Applications of the Discrete Fourier Transform https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701782/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 14:12:28 -0400 The discrete Fourier transform is a mathematically robust way of modeling various musical phenomena. I use the music21 Python module to interpret the pitch classes of an encoded musical score through the discrete Fourier transform (DFT). This methodology offers a broad view of the backgrounded scales and pitch-class collections of a piece. I have…[Read more]

]]> 0 ce454068f3028b4006dec7b604e051fd Elsa De Luca deposited Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 26-29 May, 2020 Tufts University, Boston (USA). Edited by Elsa De Luca and Julia Flanders https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701767/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:53:14 -0400 Conference proceedings.

]]> 0 830bb21ec3ffeab2088d2b53e4a573de Elsa De Luca deposited The forgotten classroom? Bringing music encoding to a new generation https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701749/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:36:21 -0400 Digital methods have begun to make their way into the research practices of music scholars, and most this insurgence can be attributed to the rise of the discipline of music technology. Though music encoding is becoming increasingly prevalent among the research and teaching methodologies of music scholars, evidence gathered from course…[Read more]

]]> 0 9fabdc6c805cbcbddc4728858c21b283 Elsa De Luca deposited Crafting TabMEI, a Module for Encoding Instrumental Tablatures https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701737/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 13:18:09 -0400 In this progress report, we describe the issues encountered during the design and implementation of TabMEI, a new MEI module for encoding instrumental tablatures. We discuss the main challenges faced and lay out our workflow for implementing the TabMEI module. In addition, we present a number of example encodings, and we describe anticipated…[Read more]

]]> 0 ff5ea6e58e64d482383b0c8916bc1197 Elsa De Luca deposited Next Steps for Measuring Polyphony: A Prototype Editor for Encoding Mensural Music https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1701682/ Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:03:54 -0400 Poster

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