Links

I know I’ve been linking throughout the texts of other parts of the site, but what’s a personal website/blog without links and exhortations to visit other Web domains the creator thinks are great? So if you’re looking to start a voyage down a digital rabbit-hole, I highly recommend you start with:

Musicology resources

  • The webdomain of Elizabeth Eva Leach — Often funny, always informative, and an important gateway into online medieval music communities.
  • Michael Scott Cuthbert’s Trecento–come for thoughts on fragments and digital musicology, stay for the notation game ‘Maxima’ and music21.
  • Gallica— The BnF (Bibliotheque Nationale de France) treasure trove of digitized manuscripts.
  • The CHARM project- The Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music. Dan Leech-Wilkinson’s book The Changing Sound of Music (available under ‘Outputs’) shows how digital media can be harnessed to new creativity in great scholarship, and the tool Sonic Visualizer (available under ‘Analyzing Recordings’) lets you get your fingernails dirty yourself.

Other Medieval resources

  • The Princeton Dante Project. An amazing resource, offering parallel translations, audio recordings, and all number of other things for the writings of Dante Alighieri. Another landmark in digital humanities work, and a great place to lose yourself for hours.
  • The Dafydd ap Gwilym edition. If you don’t know Dafydd ap Gwilym, you’re in for a treat. Imagine a combination of Dante, Shakespeare, and Eminem, and you get close. This initiative is similar to the Dante Project in offering both high-quality translations side-by-side with other tools of interest to both scholars and the general public.

 

Indian Music

  • Chandrakantha– Chandrakantha and David Courtney’s gateway to all sorts of Indian music topics. Don’t be put off by the retro appearance of the site– the forums, and collections of videos of performers, make for valuable browsing even now.
  • Aditaal Music Project-the YouTube channel of my inimitable tabla teacher, Rushi Vakil. He composes in a wide range of styles, and his collaborations reflect that diversity in exciting ways.

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