The Zentralbibliothek Zurich and several other Libraries in Switzerland own large numbers of music scores. Several of these scores are accessible via the digital platforms e-manuscripta and e-rara. But what if you want to hear the music instead of just seeing the score sheets?

We would like to make digitised music scores deposited on e-manuscripta and e-rara audible, using OMR and notational software. Our overall goal would be to develop a workflow resulting in audio files. Such a workflow would at any rate include manual steps. Rather than developing a fully automated pipeline, this little explorative study is an attempt to find out about the potentials of OMR in a cultural heritage context, possibly making written music more accessible.

Presentation

Final Presentation

Documentation

Project Documentation

Tools

• Audiveris Optical Music Recognition
• Verovio, A music notation engraving library
• Musescore Notation Software
• IIIF Curation Tool

Data

e-rara

Team

• Anna Keller
• Henrike Hoffmann
• Alexa Renggli
• Neni Milo
  
• Nobutake Kamiya
  
• Lionel Walter

Image: Hans Georg Nägeli: Christliche Lieder zur Feyer der Reformation, Zürich 1818, Zentralbibliothek Zürich, Mus WB 7132 (https://doi.org/10.3931/e-rara-20956)