I am pleased to invite you to the next talk in the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard. Please forward this announcement to anyone who might be interested. Thank you!

Trevor Bača
Wednesday, April 6, 5-7pm
Davison Room
Music Department
Harvard University

ABSTRACT: Abjad is open-source software designed to help composers build up complex pieces of music notation in an iterative and incremental way. You can use Abjad to create a symbolic representation of all the notes, rests, staves, nested rhythms, beams, slurs and other notational elements in any score. Abjad is a command-line utility implemented in the Python programming language. In this talk composer and Abjad systems architect Trevor Bača will introduce the system and show Abjad at work in score preparation.
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American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. Vancouver, March 18, 2011

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“Milanese Chant in the Monastery? Notes on a Reunited Ambrosian Manuscript,” (Co-authored) in: Ambrosiana at Harvard. New Sources of Milanese Chant (=Houghton Library Studies, vol. 3), ed. by Thomas F. Kelly and Matthew Mugmon, Cambridge, 2010

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Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to announce the second talk of the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard University. I hope that many of you will be able to attend. Please forward this invitation widely.

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Dear colleagues,

I am delighted to announce the first talk of the Digital Musicology Study Group at Harvard University. I hope that many of you will be able to attend. Please forward this invitation widely.

Shoehorns in Db: Problems of Database Modeling in Musical Source Studies  (Mark Knoll)
October 20, 5pm, Kresge Room (Room 114) in the Barker Center, Harvard University

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“The Permutation Fugue and Johann Sebastian Bach’s Compositional Development”

Paper held at the

The 14th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music

Queens University Belfast, July 1, 2010

PowerPoint Presentation available here:
Biennial Baroque Conference – Presentation Version 2

In 2001, while I was an intern at the Bach-Archiv in Leipzig I developed a prototype of a Scribe Database which holds information about scribes and copyists of Bach manuscripts. Read the full post

In March 2010 I will participate in a panel at the annual meeting of the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies (ASECS) on The “Wirtshaus”. Comparative perspectives on the hotel in the Eighteenth Century.

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