Keeping music present in the conversations about music.

Introduction

The power of a simple post such as this one is that it demonstrates that a piece of music can sit along side the conversations that are being had about that piece of music. More

Abstract

Title: Having music present in the conversation a bout music: developing software for music research.

Author: Paul Stephensen, (MCI.CD)

Email: p.stephensen@qut.edu.au

Data for musicological research might as easily be a video or an audio recording as a text or notated transcript.  The management, organization and presentation of these data involve textual analysis and presentation in written form which can often exclude the compelling aspects of digitaly recored music and sound performances. This paper focuses on the development of an approach through case studies of five music postgraduate students. More