Digital Humanities and research on medieval music - Hana Vlhová-Wörner 'guest-editor' of a special issue of the journal Musiktheorie 3/2019
Hana Vlhová-Wörner was guest-editor of volume 3/2019 of the leading German musicological journal Musiktheorie (published December 2019). The monothematic volume focused on Digital humanities and included four studies dedicated to the main areas digital tools are used for research on medieval music: databases, digital editions, neume coding and the use of web interfaces as open publication formats, as opposed to a printed book. Four leading projects, described by their developers and collaborators, represent the selected areas: the Cantusindex (Debra Lacoste), Music Encoding Initiative neume coding (Ichiro Fujinaga – Elsa de Luca a kol.), CORPUS MONODICUM (Andreas Haug – Felix Herrmann a kol.), and Musikleben des spätmittelalters in der Region Österreich, 1340–1520 (Marc Lewon – Birgit Lodes – Reinhard Strohm). More information on the journal and the volume can be found here.