Goldsmiths - University of London

Mr David Lewis

Papers presented

M. Gale, D. Lewis and T. Crawford, 'Musicological research and electronic corpora: lessons from the Electronic Corpus of Lute Music', Medieval and renaissance Music, Vienna, 2007

D. Lewis, M. Gale, T. Crawford and G. Wiggins, 'Questions of Musical Resemblance: "families" of pieces in an electronic corpus', Digital Resources for the Humanities, Lancaster, 4-7 September, 2005

Research interests

Music, particularly historical musicology and source studies, using computers to enable or facilitate studying music and its history.

Current research

Purcell Plus: Exploring an e-Science Methodology for Musicologists, A project to develop a framework of tools for eliciting knowledge from musical source materials in the form of scores, recordings and discourse. It will focus on the fantazias (including the In Nomines) of British Library MS Add 30, 930

Selected publications

This summary is incomplete and will be updated shortly

D. Lewis, T. Crawford, G. Wiggins and M. Gale, 'Abstracting Musical Queries: Towards a musicologistÂ’s workbench', in Computer Music Modelling and Retrieval: Third International Symposium, Pisa, Italy, 2005 (Springer, 2006)

C. Rhodes and D. Lewis, 'An Editor for Lute Tablature', in Computer Music Modelling and Retrieval: Third International Symposium, Pisa, Italy, 2005 (Springer, 2006)

F. Wiering, T. Crawford & D. Lewis, 'Creating an XML Vocabulary for Encoding Lute Music', in Proceedings of the XVI International Conference of the Association for History and Computing, Amsterdam, 14-17 September 2006: 279-285

D. Lewis, T. Crawford and M. Gale, 'An Electronic Corpus of Lute Music (ECOLM): Technological challenges and musicological possibilities', in R. Parncutt, A. Kessler & F. Zimmer (eds.), Proceedings of the Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology (CIM04): Graz, Austria, 15-18 April 2004 (University of Graz, 2004)