ISSN:
1572-8412
Keywords:
music
;
opera
;
libretto
;
Vivaldi
;
musicology
;
Savvy-PC
;
paraphrase
;
concordance
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Computer Science
,
Media Resources and Communication Sciences, Journalism
Notes:
Abstract In order to locate text paraphrase in Vivaldi's opera librettos, as a clue to the composer's reuse of his own arias in operas for which the music is lost, and in order to reconstruct a pattern of interdependency among a group of related medieval music treatises, the authors created their own relational databases using the Savvy-PC programming language. The crucial, unique feature of this language is a COMPARE command that transcends the limitations of Key Word in Context searches. This system puts the scholar in control of programming functions on all DOS microcomputers, and outputs universally transferrable ASCII data files. John Hill (Ph.D., Musicology, Harvard University) is professor of Music at the University of Illinois. He is the author of The Life and Works of Francesco Maria Veracini (Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1979), Vivaldi's Ottone in villa: A Study in Musical Drama, Drammaturgia musicale veneta, 1 (Venice. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, 1983), and of numerous articles. From 1983 to 1986 he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society. He is currently writing a book on the musical patronage of Cardinal Montalto in the early seventeenth century.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF00144730
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