MUSIC HISTORY

Operatic Works in the Libraries of Noble Roman Houses

Collection and digitisation

Handwritten scores of operas and other vocal music from the 18th and early 19th century have been at the centre of attention in this research project which took place at the Music Department of the German Historical Institute in Rome between 2008 and 2015.
The original manuscripts are in the private possession of two Roman aristocratic families. They are being stored in the Archivio Doria Pamphilj with entrance at Piazza Grazioli 5 and in  ...   


MUSIC HISTORY

Dance/Music digital

PD Dr. Vera Grund (Principal Investigator together with Dr. Henner Drewes and Prof. Dr. Andreas Münzmay)

The aim of the project is to develop an editing method with which the information from diverse dance sources – iconographic documents, musical scores, drama and rhetoric schools, archive documents – can be digitally linked through a comprehensive multimodal structural model. With regard to dance, four-dimensional movement analyses (including spatial dimensions and temporal progression), visualizations and analyses of dance poses,  ...