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A Super Duper Hyper Media Production in its Initial Phase

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music

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HyperMedia Production of Cajkovskij's 6th Symphonyin b minor, op 74, Pathétique

• The project is devoted to develop and publish a hyper media representation of Cajkovskij's 6th Symphony which will allow the user to browse the different media and materials as hyperlinked multi media documents.

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Pathétique

• The project interacts with the New Cajkovskij Edition (NCE), i.e. the New Edition of Cajkovskij's complete works, published since 1993 both by Muzyka, Moscow and B. Schott's Söhne, Mainz: it is based on volumes of NCE either already published or to appear.

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Pathétique - Objectives I

• The potential of the multi media technology should provide added value to the users, i.e. * easy access to different media * comfortable representation of different

media at the same time * support to compare different sources,

e.g. draft, score, piano score

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Pathétique - Objectives II

• Added value, i.e.* study the process of composing * browse additional related materials * listen to recordings of the symphony or of Caijkovskij's four handed piano score * demonstration of editorial issues (not only

of the New Cajkovskij Edition)

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Pathétique - Target Group

• In this sense, the production addresses 1. musicologists 2. practitioners like conductors, instrumentalists 3. students 4.amateurs

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Pathétique - Media I

There are different (types of) media to be

presented (and linked), in detail

• audio recording of Cajkovskij's 6th Symphony by the Russian National Orchestra directed by Mikhail Pletnev recording of Cajkovskij's four handed piano score by the Duo Crommelynck

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Pathétique - Media II

• score (New Cajkovskij Edition, NCE II/39b)

• critcal notes by Thomas Kohlhase (New Cajkovskij Edition, to appear)

• autograph of draft (New Cajkovskij Edition, NCE II/39a)

• commentary to autograph of score (New Cajkovskij Edition, NCE II/39a)

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Pathétique - Media III

• autograph of score (Old Cajkovskij Edition, OCE, State Publishers Music Moscow, 1970)

• score of Cajkovskij's four handed piano score (Old Cajkovskij Edition, OCE Vol 48, Moscow 1964)

• related materials indices, letters, concert programmes etc.

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• score NCE II/39b

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• critcal notes by Thomas Kohlhase (NCE, to appear)

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• autograph of draft (NCE II/39a)

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• score of Cajkovskij's four handed piano score (OCE Vol 48, Moscow 1964)

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• related materials: indices, registers, letters, concert programmes etc.

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Pathétique - Media Relations

These media are strongly interrelated: 'no source is an island just by itself'.

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Pathétique - Technicalities

Formats and possible Target Formats

• critical notes: SIGNUM!.sdo => WORD.doc => Acrobat.pdf

• score: SCORE.mus => MusixTeX.tex => Acrobat.pdf

• piano score, draft facsimile, score facsimile: scanned images => Acrobat.pdf

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Pathétique - Technicalities

• commentary: Schott => Acrobat.pdf

• materials: various formats => Acrobat.pdf

• audio: audio-CD => mp3

• An overview on existing formats can be found in musical notation codes.

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Pathétique - Hyperlinks

• pdf => pdf per navigation in and between pdf documents

• score => audio per JavaScript

• audio => score per director / flash

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Pathétique - Quantity Structure I

• audio – 45' recording of the 6th Symphony – 40' recording of the four handed piano score

• score 228 pages NCE as SCORE files

• critcal notes including indices 120 pages (to be revised) as ATARI SIGNUM! files

• autograph of draft 72 pages, files from the publisher

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Pathétique - Quantity Structure II

• commentary to autograph of score 80 pages, files from the publisher

• score of Cajkovskij's four handed piano score 84 pages on paper

• autograph of score 84 pages on paper

• related materials on different media, in various formats

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Pathétique - Prototype

A prototype application is under construction

using Macromedia's director in order

• to specify general requirements of the user interface and communicate about features

• to specify technical requirements w.r.t. usability, user friendliness, platforms etc.

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Pathétique - some related links

• Cajkowskij: International Cajkovskij Society

• Score: http://www.scoremus.com/ and http://ace.acadiau.ca/score/links3.htm with score previewer

• Sibelius: http://www.sibelius.com/ with web browser Scorch

• MusixTeX: MusixTeX, MusicTeX ...

• LilyPond: LilyPond oder LilyPond

• Finale: Finale2100 with MusicViewer http://www.codamusic.com/coda/fin_viewer.asp?

• experimental Java Music Specification Language with export to Score