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Digital scores from the Polish Heritage in Open Access project

This repository contains transcriptions from the Heritage of Polish Music in Open Access project at the Chopin Institute in the Humdrum digital score format. Files are organized by the RISM siglum ID of the source archive. Here is a promotional booklet about the project in Polish and English.

People and Sponsors

• Lead: Marcin Konik
• Technical Lead: Craig Stuart Sapp (analytic tools, data-processing software, digital scores and website)
• Project Manager: Jacek Iwaszko (digital scores, source edition scans)
• Metadata Manager: Marcelina Chojecka (RISM)
• Assistant Project Manager: Emilia Ziętek (digital scores)

Associated websites

The main user interface for these digital scores is https://polishscores.org. All transcriptions include links to scans of the physical scores, which are found on the sister website https://polish.musicsources.pl .

The polishscores.org website files are located in the Github repository https://github.com/craigsapp/webiste-polish-scores, as well as the backend data server files at https://github.com/craigsapp/nifc-digital-score-server . Instructions for installing and maintaining the server and digital scores can be found here.

Libraries and archives

Here are a list archives represented in the repository. Directory names are based on the RISM siglum of the archive. Click on the archive icon in the first column to see a list of the scores at https://polishscores.org, or click on the directory name in the first column to see a list of the Humdrum digital transcriptions for the given archive on Github, or click on the name of the archive to visit its webpage.

The Scores column lists the number of digital transcriptions within each archive directory, and the Notes column gives the number of musical notes contained within those scores. Currently there are 8,020 scores containing a total of 12,214,328 notes.

Source editions

All source editions for digital scores in this repository are (or wil be) available online. See the URL-scan reference records in the Humdrum files for a link to the scanned source editions. Here is a list of the websites for the scanned source editions that are currently available:

Composers

Filenames

Filenames are in the form siglum--shelfmark--sequence_composer--title.krn

Example: pl-kc--40102-iii-1-saf--002-052_zielenski-mikolaj--communiones-totius-anni-in-epiphania-domini-vidimus-stellam-eius.krn

Filenames only contains lower-case letters (a-z without accents), numbers, dashes, underscores and dots.

The first part of the file name (siglum + shelfmark + shelfmark enumeration) is unique and is used for data processing, while the second part of the file name (composer + title) is for human readability.

Reference records

Here is a list of reference records used in the Humdrum scores and their meanings:

Converting to Standard MIDI Files

(In progress).

To convert the digital scores to MIDI files on the command-line, first install verovio and humextra.

Then type these two commands in a terminal (in the base directory of the repository):

make sic
make midi

The make sic command will apply sic corrections to the diplomatic kern scores (see the Diplomatic section below). Then make midi will use the bin/makeMidi script to generate MIDI files from the sic-corrected scores. MIDI files will be written to midi subdirectories in each source archive directory (in parallel to the kern and sic subdirectories).

Diplomatic edition

Digital scores in this repository are encoded as diplomatic editions, striving to represent as accuratey as possible the semantic content of the printed edition or manuscript. This allows generating critical editions and automatic comparisons of differences between physical sources of the music. When there are obvious errors in the source material, the encoded music will preserve the error but provide a "sic" correction in the digital score that can be applied for analysis or performance use of the data.

To insert sic corrections into a score on the Polish Scores website, click on the gear icon in the top toolbar and then check the "Apply sic corrections" box:

In VHV, you apply the sic corrections with the filter sic -s,

Here is meausure 13 of the music before the sic correction has been applied to the digital score:

The cautionary accidental on G3 is missing (but not on G4), and the C4 notes are missing a sharp.

In a bash terminal, you can use the sic tool from humlib to apply the sic corrections with this bash command:

for dir in */kern
do
	mkdir -p sic/$dir
	for file in $dir/*.krn
	do
		echo "Processing file $file"
		sic -s $file > sic/$file
	done
done

This will create a directory called sic that contains kern scores having the sic corrections applied to all of the scores.