Presented by the Organising Committee Chair: Wilhelm Delport (University of Cape Town)
Welcome: Pia Shekther (IAML President, Gothenburg University)
Bridget Rennie-Salonen (Stellenbosch University) Illustrating transdisciplinary research innovation at Stellenbosch University: Music, health, and wellbeing
Lee Watkins (International Library of African Music, Rhodes University) Being at the cutting edge with a blunt knife: Context is everything at The International Library of African Music (ILAM), Rhodes University
Judith Opoku-Boateng (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana) The rhythm of responsibility: Managing and activating music collections for African Studies research in the 21st century
Presented by the Cataloguing and Metadata Section (co-sponsored by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section and the Service and Training Section) Chair: Christopher Holden (Library of Congress)
Section elections
Kimmy Szeto (IAML Treasurer, Baruch College, CUNY) Library practices for electronic and digital music scores: Integrating functions, standards, processes
*Kyla Jemison (University of Toronto) Developing metadata workflows for e-scores
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Jutta Lambrecht (Westdeutscher Rundfunk, Köln)
Dominic Daula (Rhodes University, Makhanda) On source material pertaining to the ‘Duo Concertante’ for viola and piano by Arnold van Wyk
Ingrid Gollom (Stellenbosch University) An overview of the life and career of South African concert pianist Lionel Charles Bowman (1919-2006) as compiled from the primary source material in the Lionel Bowman Collection (Stellenbosch University)
Bret Werb (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum) An overview of archival music resources at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum
Presented by the Service and Training Section (co-sponsored by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section and the Cataloguing and Metadata Section) Chair: Katherine Penner (University of Manitoba)
Katherine Penner (University of Manitoba) iPad, digital scores, circulation et al: Getting started
Stephanie Bonjack (University of Colorado Boulder) Advocacy and digital scores: Toward a model license and priorities
Kristi Bergland (University of Minnesota) Beyond the mechanics: Exploring ethical considerations of e-scores in music libraries
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Jürgen Diet (IAML Vice President, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek)
Barbara Schwarz-Raminger (Mozarteum University Salzburg), Birgit Lechner (Mozarteum University Salzburg), Armin Brinzing and Eva Neumayr (International Mozarteum Foundation) The “Mozarteum”: A history of musical life in Salzburg since 1841
*Hippocrates Ching-nam Cheng (Indiana University) Reverberating through time: A study of player piano roll archiving at Stanford University (SUPRA)
David Day (Brigham Young University) A history of autograph musical manuscripts at Brigham Young University
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Martie Severt (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag)
Anita Breckbill (University of Nebraska, Lincoln), Mnukwana Ncebakazi (Stellenbosch University) Freedom: Anders Nyberg and the spread of songs from South Africa
*Ifeanyi Okafor (Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka) Songs of the women of Anglican Diocese of Nnewi, Anambra Sate, Nigeria: The need for documentation
Presented by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section (co-sponsored by the Cataloguing and Metadata Section and the Service and Training Section) Chair: Houman Behzadi (McGill University, Montreal)
Section elections
Panel discussion: Charles Peters, Chair, LIMTI (Indiana University) Carla Williams, Vice Chair, LIMTI (Ohio University) Christopher Holden, Chair, Cataloguing and Metadata (Library of Congress) Katherine Penner, Chair, Service and Training (University of Manitoba)
Monday June 24, 2024 16:00 - 17:30 SAST
Endler Hall
Presented by the Audio-Visual Materials Section Chair: Ferenc Janós Szabó (Institute for Musicology of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Liszt Ference Academy of Music)
Duncan Shelwell (Recordiana, Cape Town) Discovering "L’Assedio Dei Sogni, The Siege of Dreams”
Sinazo Mtshemla (University of Fort Hare) Reading Govan Mbeki’s sound(s) archive as “infrastructure” that enables collective listening
Timóteo Cuche (University of Aveiro; Eduardo Mondlane University) Migrant harmonies: A discographical analysis of the Mozambican musical diaspora in South Africa (1930-1975)
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Martie Severt (Koninklijk Conservatorium Den Haag)
Jürgen May, Inge Engelbrecht and Anke Froehlich (Stellenbosch University) The Genadendal Music Archive (GMA): A challenging affair
Esther Pauw (Stellenbosch University) Curating a colonial archive: The Tamássy-Pauw flute and chamber scores collection
Jan Dewilde (Centre for the Study of Flemish Music; Royal Conservatoire Antwerp) Musical expressions of support by Flemish composers to the Afrikaners during the Boer Wars (1880-1902), conserved in Flemish music libraries
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Jim Cassaro (University of Pittsburgh)
Brian Inglis (Middlesex University) Music publishing in the late 20th and early 21st century: Case studies in diversity and dissemination
Houman Behzadi (McGill University, Montreal) How well are we walking the walk? Modest though meaningful steps to support user demands for scores from underrepresented composers
Kevin Page (University of Oxford), David Lewis (University of Oxford), David Weigl (University of Performing Arts, Vienna) Annotating digital music notation: Past, present and future approaches
Presented by the Bibliography Section Chair: Stefan Engl (IAML Vice President, Wienbibliothek im Rathaus)
Section elections
Andréa Alexander, Engela Britz and Rebekka Sandmeier (University of Cape Town) Concert programmes in the W.H. Bell Music Library: Towards collection management, teaching, and collaboration
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Kimmy Szeto (IAML Treasurer, Baruch College, CUNY)
Ruta Almane-Palmbaha (National Library of Latvia) Digital collection of the Latvian song and dance celebrations then (2018) and now (2023)
Jonathan Manton (Yale University) Prioritizing preservation through access: Placing digital stewardship at the heart of digital collections access at Yale University Library
Nkwenkwezi Languza (National Archives of South Africa, Pretoria) Advancing the preservation of South African memory: The digitisation of the Rivonia Trial dictabelts - Exploring future directions and emerging challenges in archiving South Africa’s audio heritage
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Charles Peters (Indiana University)
Paul Guise (Cultureconsult.ca, Toronto) Scotch tape and milk crates: Building an efficient music processing workflow
Joseph Hafner (McGill University, Montreal) McGill University Collections Centre: Navigating the journey to a sustainable robotic off-site library storage facility
Pio Pellizzari (Switzerland) The Safeguarding of the Audiovisual Heritage a) Ethics, principles and preservation strategy b) Handling and storage of audiovisual documents
Presented by the Archives and Music Documentation Centres Section Chair: Joseph Hafner (McGill University, Montreal)
Section elections
Maria João Albuquerque (Nova University, Lisbon), Teresa Albuquerque (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco), Mónica Costa (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco), Joana Gonçalves (Polytechnic Institute of Castelo Branco) The Portuguese musical heritage: A methodology for enhanced knowledge, preservation, and access
Clara Byom (Klezmer Institute, Albuquerque) Archiving music based in oral tradition: The Klezmer Archive project
Presented by the Research Libraries Section Chair: Ruprecht Langer (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek)
Section elections
Lee Watkins (Rhodes University) The role of the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University in South Africa in the archiving of Khoesan performance heritage
Deidre Gosslet (University of Cape Town) Reflecting on the music archives housed at the University of Cape Town Libraries special collections
Amy Rommelspacher, Isabel Murray (Stellenbosch University) Tracing the history of a 1919-hymnbook in Malawi - A new reading of the DRC archival music collection
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Sonia Rzepka (University of Warsaw, Poland)
Pascal Leray (CNSMPD, Paris) and *Isabelle Gauchet Doris (Maison de la Musique Contemporaine, Paris) Crossed views on contemporary music collections: A day-to-day collaboration by documentalists, librarians and archivists
Aris Bazmadelis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), (Arsinoi Ioannidou (RISM Greek Office, Athens) and Maria Aslanidi (Ionian University, Corfu) Librarians and information scientists in Greece: The case of music librarians: State of the art and challenges for the future
*Benjamin Amakye-Boateng (University of Ghana) Cross-cultural musicology and the role of libraries: Insights from the University of Ghana Music Department
Presented by the Organizing Committee Chair: Ellen Tise (Stellenbosch University)
Sylvia Bruinders (University of Cape Town) Sustainability, revitalisation and repatriation: Dialogue of Lesotho music and culture through space and time
Lizabé Lambrechts (Africa Open Institute for Music, Research and Innovation, Stellenbosch University) and Saskia van der Want (Stellenbosch University) Making the invisible visible: Investigating the hidden life of fungi in the archive
Rick Deja (University of Cape Town) Indigenous musics in motion: Archives, organology, and inspiring living traditions
Business meeting for national committees and anyone interested in collaboration with RILM Chair: Tina Frühauf (RILM International Center, The City University of New York)
Presented by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institution Section Chair: Charles Peters (Indiana University)
Jürgen Diet (IAML Vice President, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) Digital services for musicologists and music librarians in the musiconn-project offered by the State Libraries in Bavaria and Saxony
*Anna Dimoula, *Jason Cohen and *Kineret Ben-Knaan (University of Miami) University of Miami Libraries in partnership with the Frost School of Music in creating a digital submission process for graduate students: Workflows, policies and access
*Jake Schaub (Vanderbilt University, Nashville) The building of a small digital library: AIDS songs of northern Malawi
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Kimmy Szeto (IAML Treasurer, Baruch College, CUNY)
David Rizo, (Universidad de Alicante, Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas de la Comunidad Valenciana), Teresa Delgado (Biblioteca Nacional de España), Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza (Universidad de Alicante), Patricia García-Iasci (Universidad de Alicante) and Antonio Madueño (Universidad de Alicante) Insights into AI to encode a whole mensural collection with limited resources
Andrew Hankinson, Rodolfo Zitellini, Laurent Pugin (RISM Digital Center) Revising the Plaine and Easie code specifications
David M. Weigl (University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna) Encoding strategies for notations combining text and music
Paul Burger (University of Pretoria) and J. P. Jacobs (University of Pretoria) Direct labelling of form of Classical-period piano sonata movements from audio recordings (short paper)
Edward Hulme (Cardiff University), David Marshall (Cardiff University), Kirill Sidorov (Cardiff University) and Andrew Jones (Cardiff University) Acoustic classification of guitar tunings with deep learning (full paper)
*Thomas Nuttall (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), *Xavier Serra (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) and *Lara Pearson (Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics) Svara-forms and coarticulation in carnatic music: An investigation using deep clustering (full paper)
Chair: Jennifer Ward (RISM Editorial Center, Frankfurt am Main)
Report from Balázs Mikusi (RISM Editorial Center, Frankfurt am Main), presented by Jennifer Ward News from the RISM Editorial Center: Where do we stand and where are we headed?
Bernhard Lutz (Bavarian State Library) Exploring the updated RISM Catalog: A guide to its structure, functions, and search features
Laurent Pugin (RISM Digital Center, Bern) and Andrew Hankinson (RISM Digital Center, Bern) The RISM Digital Center and approaches to linking data through RISM Online
Wilhelm Delport (University of Cape Town) How tracking RISM’s footprint across (South) Africa led to the discovery of ancient bullroarers, San rock paintings and an elephant in the music room
Risa de Rege "South Africa We Vow to Thee": A Sheet Music Study
Kristi Bergland (University of Minnesota Libraries) Bridging the gap: Enhancing accessibility metadata for video recordings at the University of Minnesota Libraries
David Rizo (University of Allicante), Pablo López-Rocamora (University of Murcia) and Antonio Pardo-Cayuela (University of Murcia) A workflow for attribution issues using language models
Patricia García-Iasci, Juan Carlos Martínez-Sevilla and David Rizo (University of Alicante) JazzMus: Optical recognition and encoding of jazz lead sheets
Patricia García-Iasci and David Rizo (University of Alicante) EA-DIGIFOLK: Digitizing and encoding Irish traditional music at ITMA.
Digital Libraries for Musicology poster session
Felicia Sandler (New England Conservatory) The Amu Score Project, Inc.
Sepideh Shafiei and Shapour Hakam Development and structure of an audio-MIDI database for Iranian classical music
Laurent Pugin (RISM Digital Center), Johannes Hentschel (EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Yannis Rammos (EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Andrew Hankinson (RISM Digital Center) and Martin Rohrmeier, (EPFL - École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne) MEI-Basic support in MuseScore
Rachel Cowgill (School of Arts and Creative Technologies, University of York), David Bainbridge (Computing and Mathematical Sciences, University of Waikato), Alan Dix (Computational Foundry, Swansea University; Cardiff Metropolitan University), Victoria Hoyle (Dept. of History, University of York), Vicki Fong (ThomFong) and David Thomas (ThomFong) (Re-)capturing the emotional geography of lost venues: A case study of the Willow Community Digital Archive (full paper)
David Lewis (Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford) and Kevin Page (Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford) Popular musical arrangements in the nineteenth century home: A study of the Harmonicon supported by digital tools (full paper)
Lena Frömmel (Paderborn University), Tobias Bachmann (Paderborn University), Anna Plaksin (Paderborn University) and Andreas Münzmay (Paderborn University) Open Edirom: From hybrid music edition to open data publication (short paper)
Martha E. Thomae (Nova University of Lisbon), David Rizo (University of Alicante; Instituto Superior de Enseñanzas Artísticas de la Comunidad Valenciana), Eliseo Fuentes-Martínez (University of Alicante), Cristina Alís Raurich (ICCMU Instituto Complutense de Ciencias Musicales), Elsa De Luca (Nova University of Lisbon) and Jorge Calvo-Zaragoza (University of Alicante) A preliminary proposal for a systematic GABC encoding of Gregorian chant (full paper)
Andrew Hankinson (RISM Digital Center) and Laurent Pugin (RISM Digital Center) Navigating the RISM data with RISM Online (full paper)
Presented by the Service and Training Section Chair: Katherine Penner (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)
Section elections
Nathalie Hristov (University of Tennessee) and Kathryn Shepas-Linton (Vanderbilt University) The Music by Black and Latinx Composers Collection at the University of Tennessee: Realigning music library collections to reflect modern updates to the canon of Western art music
Annemie Behr (University of South Africa, Pretoria) Collaborative teaching in tertiary music education through OERs
Carolyn Doi (University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon) Toward a more inclusive academic music library collection: The Canadian perspective
Chair: Tina Frühauf (RILM International Center, The City University of New York)
Tina Frühauf (RILM International Center, The City University of New York) A year in review—RILM and Africa
Patricia Achieng Opondo (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa) Documenting and archiving of performing arts in African contexts: Challenges in bibliography, cataloging, and classification of live and digital resources
Suzanne Strauss (University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa) Vibrant legacies echoing through time: The preservation of South Africa’s diverse musical
Presented by the Research Libraries Section Chair: Eva Neumayr (Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg; Internationale Stiftung Mozarteum)
Elizabeth Berndt (New York University) and Sandi-Jo Malmon (Harvard University) Enhancing libraries' music collections strategies: Focus on new music
Ruprecht Langer (Deutsche Nationalbibliothek) The collection mandate of the German Music Archive of the German National Library. Backgrounds, challenges, and solutions
Christopher Scobie (British Library) A question of priorities: Perspectives on collecting personal archives of contemporary musicians
*Tiange Zhu (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers), Raphaël Fournier-S'Niehotta (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) and Philippe Rigaux (Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers) FACETS: A tool for improved exploration of large symbolic music collections (short paper)
Stanisław Graczyk (Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology), Zuzanna Piniarska (Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology), Mateusz Kałamoniak (Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology), Tomasz Łukaszewski (Poznan University of Technology), Ewa Łukasik (Institute of Computing Science, Poznan University of Technology) An online tool for semi-automatically annotating music scores for optical music recognition (short paper)
*Kevin Allain (City, University of London), *Tillman Weyde, City, University of London JazzDAP: Collaborative research tools for digital jazz archives (short paper)
Presented by the Archives and Music Documentation Centres Section Chair: Joseph Hafner (McGill University, Montreal)
*Joseph Kunnuji and *Matildie Wium (Odeion School of Music) Resounding Yorùbá narratives: Analysing Àlọ́ prosody through sound visualisation technology in contemporary archival studies
Mieke Struwig (Stellenbosch University) The South African Music Encyclopedia: Perspectives from the archive
*Lucas Campos (University of Aveiro) Angolan chordophones in Portugal
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Charles Peters (Indiana University)
*Siviwe Bangani (Stellenbosch University) Demonstrating scholarly impact: Acknowledgement of music libraries in students’ theses and dissertations in South Africa
Andrea Beckendorf (Luther College, Decorah) Current directions in music information literacy: A new companion to the "Framework for Information Literacy for Higher Education"
Presented by the Cataloguing and Metadata Section Chair: Christopher Holden
Joseph Hafner (McGill University, Montreal) METATEC: The next step in publishing IFLA standards
Matthias Pasdzierny (Universität der Künste, Berlin) and Thomas Kraemer (GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften) APSearch.org – Making historical sound recordings from the Arab world findable
Presented by the Forum of Sections Chair: Stefan Engl (IAML Vice President, Wienbibliothek im Rathaus)
Rachel Cowgill (University of York) Musical Heritage, place-making and the archive: Some perspectives from the StreetLife project (City of York, UK)
*Christian Onyeji (University of Nigeria) How accessible are the music?: Challenges of field recordings and documentation of folk music in contemporary Nigeria