Online Thematic Catalogue of Lully Keyboard Arrangements—Some Reflections and Observations

David Chung

Fall Symposium on Digital Scholarship 2018

A thematic catalogue of over 600 pieces from 70 sources

Benefits

•Wider dissemination

•Additional resources

•Global access

•Facsimile images

F-Pn Rés. 89ter, fol. 88v

Air de Ballet. les Songes agréables, LWV 53/58

‘New German organ tablature’

‘La beauté’ from Atys (1676), LWV 53/75 (S-Skma Tablatur 7, fol. 2v)

Incipits with full keyboard texture

•Incipits with full keyboard texture reveal scribal characteristics usually lacking in traditional thematic catalogues

Dieu des Enfers (sarabande), from Ballet de la Naissance de Venus (1665), LWV 27/41

F D’Anglebert, 23

•An incipit presenting only the melody

Passacaille d’Armide, LWV 71/61

GB-Lbl Ms. Add. 39569 (Babell), p. 100

B-Bc Ms 27220, p. 203, Ouverture d’Atys (LWV 53/1)

US-BEm Ms 1371, fol. 80v, Chaconne de Galatée (LWV 73/32)

Music not searchable

In OTCL, themes are encoded with numbers, ignoring rhythms, registers and other variables

Additional challenges

•The process of requesting reproduction and permissions of use for over 50 images

•Updating the database in the future

Four main categories of electronic resources in Musicology

•Journals

•Early Music, Music & Letters, Musical Quarterly

•Journal of Seventeenth-Century Music (www.sscm-jscm.org)

•Original sources

•Bach Digital, Digital Archives of the Beethoven-Haus Bonn (www.beethoven.de), Online Chopin Variorum Edition

•Research aids

•Grove Music Online, RISM, Frescobaldi Thematic Catalogue Online

•Editions

•WLSCM (sscm-wlscm.org), Digital Mozart Edition (dme.mozarteum.at)

Question: Why do we need it?

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