Medieval Musical Iconography in the Digital Age: Sorbonne-Columbia FAB-Musiconis (A Roundtable)
Sponsoring Organization(s)
Special Session
Organizer Name
Susan Boynton
Organizer Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Presider Name
Susan Boynton
Paper Title 1
Adventures in Defining, Translating, and Teaching Medieval Musical Iconography
Presenter 1 Name
Lindsay S. Cook
Presenter 1 Affiliation
Vassar College
Paper Title 2
Creating Records in the Musiconis Database
Presenter 2 Name
Florentin Morel
Presenter 2 Affiliation
Univ. de Paris-Sorbonne
Paper Title 3
Lute or Vielle? Elders of the Apocalypse and Their Instruments in Romanesque Sculpture
Presenter 3 Name
Sébastien Biay
Presenter 3 Affiliation
Institut national d’histoire de l’art
Paper Title 4
Harp or "Rote" (Harp-Psaltery)? Details on the Photos of Musiconis Database
Presenter 4 Name
Frédéric Billiet
Presenter 4 Affiliation
Univ. de Paris-Sorbonne
Paper Title 5
Thinking through Audiences: Use-Case Scenarios and Design Best Practices for Collaborative Digital Humanities Projects
Presenter 5 Name
Emogene S. Cataldo
Presenter 5 Affiliation
Columbia Univ.
Start Date
11-5-2019 10:00 AM
Session Location
Bernhard 204
Description
FAB-Musiconis is a project of Columbia University and Paris-Sorbonne University funded by the Partner University Fund of the FACE Foundation. From 2016-2019, graduate student medievalists from each of the two partner universities participated in a dedicated exchange program between Paris and New York providing them with a well-rounded formation in digital humanities approaches to the analysis and description of medieval images of music using the Sorbonne's Musiconis metabase. This metabase pulls in records from partner databases (such as Gothic Ivories) with images of art objects in a wide range of media including manuscripts, ivories, sculpture, and painting. The Musiconis records add carefully curated metadata that us specific to the musical imagery, including descriptions of instruments and playing techniques. The multidisciplinary group included musicologists, art historians, and computer scientists whose collaborative research focuses on the development of new methods for cataloguing images and on applications of ontologies and linked data to the classification of musical iconography. The session will focus on the Musiconis metabase; the application of controlled vocabularies to the analysis of medieval images of music; the future of musical iconography; and the insights that this project offers into the use of the digital humanities in teaching medieval studies. Susan Boynton
Medieval Musical Iconography in the Digital Age: Sorbonne-Columbia FAB-Musiconis (A Roundtable)
Bernhard 204
FAB-Musiconis is a project of Columbia University and Paris-Sorbonne University funded by the Partner University Fund of the FACE Foundation. From 2016-2019, graduate student medievalists from each of the two partner universities participated in a dedicated exchange program between Paris and New York providing them with a well-rounded formation in digital humanities approaches to the analysis and description of medieval images of music using the Sorbonne's Musiconis metabase. This metabase pulls in records from partner databases (such as Gothic Ivories) with images of art objects in a wide range of media including manuscripts, ivories, sculpture, and painting. The Musiconis records add carefully curated metadata that us specific to the musical imagery, including descriptions of instruments and playing techniques. The multidisciplinary group included musicologists, art historians, and computer scientists whose collaborative research focuses on the development of new methods for cataloguing images and on applications of ontologies and linked data to the classification of musical iconography. The session will focus on the Musiconis metabase; the application of controlled vocabularies to the analysis of medieval images of music; the future of musical iconography; and the insights that this project offers into the use of the digital humanities in teaching medieval studies. Susan Boynton