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Welcome to Wiki::Score, a platform similar to the Wikipedia for cooperative editing of large scale music scores (eg. operas, symphonies, cantatas etc). Wiki::Score is a wiki which, using the ABC notation for music representation, is primarily intended for publishing modern editions of unknown works buried in music archives. It has emerged from experience in the lab sessions of the Computing for Musicology course of the Music degree of the University of Minho.
The basic principle is that of dividing a large score into a matrix of elementary music cells (eg. the flute part of the first movement of a particular symphony) so that many collaborators can work concurrently on the same source. Matrices have as many columns as sections in the work being edited (eg. an aria of an opera) and as many rows as parts (eg. the soprano part). At any time collaborators can build the score of the section they are editing, modulo selection of the parts of interest, and checking the outcome in Abc, PDF, MIDI etc.
Please see below how to contribute to Wiki::Score.
Wiki::Score finds its early motivation in our aim to contribute to bringing to light the vast number of autograph scores of 17c-18c operas which are kept in Portuguese archives, namely in the Ajuda and National Libraries. Of course, this can be applied to any other sources and funds from anywhere in the world.
Acknowledgements: we acknowledge the fabulous work of Biblioteca Nacional Digital on digital preservation, without which this work would never be possible.
One of our pilot projects is the opera Demetrio a Rodi in the table below. It is made of 41 sections and involves 28 parts (instruments and voices).
Click a project's Name to have access to its parts matrix:
Name | Kind | Composer | Text | Date | Archive | Source | Status | Obs. | Certified Score |
Various works | 16/17c church music | Manuel Cardoso (1566–1650) | Évora, Lisbon, 17c | tba | |||||
Four Responsories for Matins on Christmas Day | 17c church music | D. Pedro da Esperança (?-1660) | Coimbra, 17c | Univ. Coimbra Archives | M.M.18, fols. 40-48 | nearing completion | Hodie Nobis (2nd Response); O Magnum Misterium (4th Response) ; Beata Dei Genitrix (5th Response) ; Beata Viscera Mariae Virgins (7th Response) | tba | |
Sinfonia (in F) | baroque symphony | Francisco António de Almeida (c1702-?1755) (Wikipedia) | Lisbon or Rome, 18c | Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Dresden | http://digital.slub-dresden.de/werkansicht/dlf/15570/1/cache.off | nearing completion | Sinfonia co. VV.ni, Oboi, Corni, Viola e Basso (…) del Sig.r Almeyda | tba | |
Gloria, Fama, Virtu | cantata | António Teixeira (1707-1774) (Wikipedia) | Lisbon, 18c | Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Lisbon | http://purl.pt/78/1/P1.html | nearing completion | Cantata a 3 voci concertata con Violini, Obuè Flauti Trombe, e Corni da Caccia: Nº 2 : Gloria, Fama, Virtù / Del Sig. Antonio Teixeira, [1734-1750]. - Manuscript score, 58 f., 21×28 cm | tba | |
Sinfonia in D# a 8 voci | symphony | Davide Perez (1711-1778) (Wikipedia) | 18c | Utile Dulci collection, Sweden | http://utiledulci.musikverket.se/UD_select.php?lang=en&id=8705&t=composer&Comp1=Perez,%20David | nearing completion | Sinfonia Nr. 32 Del Sig. Perez | tba | |
Nanetta e Lubino | opera buffa (overture) | Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798) (Wikipedia) (Grove) | Libretto by Carlo Francesco Badini | London, 1769 | Utile Dulci collection, Sweden | manuscript score: HTML ; parts (original edition, 1769): HTML | on-going | tba | |
Demetrio a Rodi | opera | Gaetano Pugnani (1731-1798) (Wikipedia) (Grove) | Libretto by Giandomenico Boggio and Giuseppe Banti | Torino, 1789 | Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Lisbon | http://purl.pt/16734/1/P5.html | on-going | 48 p. Libretto Demetrio a Rodi: festa per musica da rappresentarsi nel Regio teatro di Torino per le nozze delle LL. AA. RR. Vittorio Emanuele) by Giandomenico Boggio and Giuseppe Banti. Published by Presso O. Derossi in 1789 | tba |
Fiat Misericordia | church music | João de Sousa Carvalho (1745-1798) (Wikipedia) | Lisbon, 1794 | Biblioteca Nacional, Lisbon | nearing completion | Fiat Misericordia / Solo de Contralto con Violini, Oboé, Corni, Violi, Fagotti e Bassi / Feito para se cantar na Real Capela de N. S. da Ajuda em dia de S. Silvestre en lugar do Cheio que está na Partitura grande. Pelo Sr. João de Sousa Carvalho / em o ano de 1794 | tba | ||
Sacred Works | church music | António da Silva Leite (1759-1833) | starting | tba | |||||
Tantum Ergo, Kyrie, Gloria e Credo | church music | João Domingos Bomtempo (1771-1842) (Wikipedia) | Lisbon, 1842 | Biblioteca Nacional Digital, Lisbon | http://purl.pt/25639/3/#/8 | on-going | Tantum Ergo, Kyrie, Gloria e Credo escripto, composto e oferecido a S.M.F. El Rei D. Fernando por João Domingues Bomtempo, Anno 1842 | tba | |
A Vivandeira | operetta | Eduardo Fonseca (1863-1938) (Wikipedia) | Text by A.B. Alves de Lemos | Porto, 1913 | private archive | autograph score: PDF ; vocal parts: PDF ; vocal parts: PDF ; | nearing completion | Children operetta written for the Asylum of Escola Municipal nr. 1, Porto, where it was performed on the 27th of April, 1913 | tba |
Verbum caro factum est | 16c vocal music | Anonymous | Liturgic | 16c | on-going | the first Wiki::Score demo |
Please send an e-mail to narcarvalho@di.uminho.pt and ask for a user registration for editing current projects. Contributors knowing of other sources which they would like to publish are welcome to send us a link to the source, for the project to be created.
In case you don't know the ABC notation only a mild effort is required to learn its basics. Have a look at the examples in Abc Examples. Link Get Started With Abc will help you to get started. The standard of the notation can be found in Abc Standard.
In case you are familiar with smart editors such as eg. easyABC you can copy the contents of the cell you want to change into the editor, edit it there and paste the outcome back to Wkiki::score.
If you are using Firefox this can be further automated: see How to contribute with EasyABC in 5 steps
Try your first contribution in one of the parts of Pugnani's opera Demetrio a Rodi, for instance - the source is quite readable.
Paper WIKI::SCORE - A Collaborative Environment For Music Transcription And Publishing. J.J. ALMEIDA, N.R. CARVALHO and J.N. OLIVEIRA. ELPUB'12, 2012. (Paper,Slides)
Media: WikiScore: Universidade do Minho criou uma "Wikipedia" para a música. In P3, Publico, 15/06/2012.
Developers: N. Carvalho, J.J. Almeida, J.N. Oliveira, A. Simões (all DIUM). ABC support: Guido Gonzato (Univ. Verona). Musicologist: Elisa Lessa (ILCH). Technical support: J.L. Faria (DIUM).
Wiki-score acknowlegdes support by INESC TEC and U.Minho