Prof Tim Crawford

Tim has research interests in computational approaches to musicology and music history from the 16th to 18th centuries.

Staff details

Position

Professorial Research Fellow in Computational Musicology

Department

Computing

Email

t.crawford (@gold.ac.uk)

Website

http://doc.gold.ac.uk/~mas01tc

Professor Tim Crawford worked for 15 years as a professional musician before becoming an academic.

Beginning in the 1990s at King’s College, University of London, where he worked in the Music Department and with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, he has been involved with the use of computers in the service of musicology.

He set up an international project in music information retrieval, Online Music Searching And Retrieval (OMRAS) and established the Electronic Corpus of Lute Music, which has received funding from the AHRC.

He is currently Principal Investigator of the AHRC Digital Transformations project Transforming Musicology, involving over 15 researchers and three PhD students at Goldsmiths, Oxford, Queen Mary, Lancaster and Utrecht universities. His latest project, also funded by the AHRC, is Learn To Play, which uses machine-learning technology and the experience of working with historical music to grade pieces for online learning and to generate exercises to help students with their instrumental practice.

Publications and research outputs

Edited Book

Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750): Sämtliche Were für Laute, vol. 10 (transcription) Crawford, Tim , ed. 2011. Silvius Leopold Weiss (1687-1750): Sämtliche Were für Laute, vol. 10 (transcription). Cassel, Germany: Das Erbe deutscher Musik, Sonderreihe, Bände 16, Bärenreiter Verlag. ISBN 9790006018079

Book Section

Luise Gottsched: Lute-playing heroine of her Age Crawford, Tim . 2022. Luise Gottsched: Lute-playing heroine of her Age. In: Andreas Schlegel, ed. ... in der verlorene Paradies: Festschrift in memoriam Annette Otterstedt. Menziken, Switzerland: The Lute Corner, pp. 224-279. ISBN 9783952323243
Dimensionality Reduction in Harmonic Modeling for Music Information Retrieval Crawford, Tim ; Pickens, J.; and Wiggins, Geraint . 2006. Dimensionality Reduction in Harmonic Modeling for Music Information Retrieval. In: Richard Kronland-Martinet; Thierry Voinier and Sylvi Ystad, eds. Computer Music Modeling and Retrieval. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pp. 233-248. ISBN 03029743

Article

A digital corpus for exploring the lute music of John Dowland (1563-1626) Crawford, Tim . 2024. A digital corpus for exploring the lute music of John Dowland (1563-1626). Journal of New Music Research, 53(3-4), pp. 178-188. ISSN 0929-8215
Silvius Leopold Weiss and the Improvised Prelude Crawford, Tim . 2020. Silvius Leopold Weiss and the Improvised Prelude. Journal of the Lute Society fo America, 53, pp. 105-144. ISSN 0076-1524
Searching for musical features using natural language queries: the C@merata evaluations at MediaEval Sutcliffe, Richard; Hovy, Eduard; Collins, Tom; Wan, Stephen; Crawford, Tim ; and Root, Deane. 2019. Searching for musical features using natural language queries: the C@merata evaluations at MediaEval. Language Resources and Evaluation, 53(1), pp. 87-140. ISSN 1574-020X

Conference or Workshop Item

Pragmatic Digital Musicology Crawford, Tim ; and Lewis, David ORCID logo . 2024. 'Pragmatic Digital Musicology'. In: Algomus seminar (invited talk). Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (Cristal), Lille University, France 19 February 2024.
ECOLM and Lute Tablature Cannam, Chris; Lewis, David ; and Crawford, Tim . 2023. 'ECOLM and Lute Tablature'. In: 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2023). Milan, Italy 10 November 2023.
Exploring early vocal music and its lute arrangements: Using F-TEMPO as a musicological tool Crawford, Tim ; Lewis, David ; and Porter, Alastair. 2023. 'Exploring early vocal music and its lute arrangements: Using F-TEMPO as a musicological tool'. In: 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2023). Milan, Italy 10 November 2023.

End-to-end loading of new music libraries to F-Tempo via IIIF Porter, Alastair; Crawford, Tim ; and Lewis, David . 2023. 'End-to-end loading of new music libraries to F-Tempo via IIIF'. In: 10th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2023). Milan, Italy 10 November 2023.
Corpus-building and corpus-based musicology for the Early Modern Period: Towards a complete Electronic Corpus of Lute Music... and beyond Lewis, David ORCID logo ; Crawford, Tim ; and Badkobeh, Golnaz . 2023. 'Corpus-building and corpus-based musicology for the Early Modern Period: Towards a complete Electronic Corpus of Lute Music... and beyond'. In: International Colloquium of Computational and Cognitive Musicology 2023. Athens, Greece 22-24 June 2023.
Notes on the Music: A social data infrastructure for music annotation Weigl, David M.; Goebl, Werner; Baker, David J. ; Crawford, Tim ; Zubani, Federico ; Gkiokas, Aggelos; Gutierrez, Nicolas F.; Porter, Alastair; and Santos, Patricia. 2021. 'Notes on the Music: A social data infrastructure for music annotation'. In: 8th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM2021). Virtual Conference, GA, United States 28-30 July 2021.
Searching Page-Images of Early Music Scanned with OMR: A Scalable Solution Using Minimal Absent Words Crawford, Tim ; Badkobeh, Golnaz ; and Lewis, David . 2018. 'Searching Page-Images of Early Music Scanned with OMR: A Scalable Solution Using Minimal Absent Words'. In: 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference. Paris, France 24-27 September 2018.
Searching Page-Images of Early Music Scanned with OMR: A Scalable Solution Using Minimal Absent Words Crawford, Tim ; Badkobeh, Golnaz ; and Lewis, David. 2018. 'Searching Page-Images of Early Music Scanned with OMR: A Scalable Solution Using Minimal Absent Words'. In: Proceedings of the 19th International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, ISMIR 2018, Paris, France, September 23-27, 2018. Paris, France 23 – 27 September 2018.
Relating Natural Language Text to Musical Passages Sutcliffe, Richard; Crawford, Tim ; Fox, Chris; Root, Deane L.; Hovy, Eduard; and Lewis, Richard . 2015. 'Relating Natural Language Text to Musical Passages'. In: Proceedings of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. Malaga, Spain.
Expert-guided semantic linking of music-library metadata for study and reuse Weigl, David M.; Lewis, David ; Crawford, Tim ; and Page, Kevin R.. 2015. 'Expert-guided semantic linking of music-library metadata for study and reuse'. In: International Workshop on Digital Libraries for Musicology. Knoxville, TN, United States.
MEI for lute music Lewis, David ; Lewis, Richard ; and Crawford, Tim . 2015. 'MEI for lute music'. In: Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference (MEC 2015). Florence, Italy.
MEI for lute music Lewis, David ; Lewis, Richard ; and Crawford, Tim . 2015. 'MEI for lute music'. In: Proceedings of the Music Encoding Conference (MEC 2015). Florence, Italy.
Multi-modal Musical Performance Capture Müllensiefen, Daniel ; Baker, David ; Lewis, Richard ; Rhodes, Christophe ; Fields, Ben ; and Crawford, Tim . 2014. 'Multi-modal Musical Performance Capture'. In: Digital Music Research Network (DMRN+9). London, United Kingdom.
Explorations in Linked Data practice for early music corpora Crawford, Tim ; Fields, Ben ; Lewis, David ; and Page, Kevin R.. 2014. 'Explorations in Linked Data practice for early music corpora'. In: Digital Libraries 2014. London, United Kingdom 8 - 12 September 2014.
Duplicate detection in facsimile scans of early printed music Rhodes, Christophe ; Crawford, Tim ; and d'Inverno, Mark . 2014. 'Duplicate detection in facsimile scans of early printed music'. In: European Conference on Data Analysis. Bremen, Germany 2 - 4 July 2014.
Recognition of leitmotives in Richard Wagner's music: chroma distance and listener expertise Müllensiefen, Daniel ; Baker, David ; Rhodes, Christophe ; Crawford, Tim ; and Dreyfus, Laurence. 2014. 'Recognition of leitmotives in Richard Wagner's music: chroma distance and listener expertise'. In: European Conference on Data Analysis. Bremen, Germany 2 - 4 July 2014.
Breathy or Resonant - A Controlled and Curated Dataset for Phonation Mode Detection in Singing Proutskova, Polina ; Rhodes, Christophe ; Wiggins, Geraint; and Crawford, Tim . 2012. 'Breathy or Resonant - A Controlled and Curated Dataset for Phonation Mode Detection in Singing'. In: International Conference on Music Information Retrieval. Porto, Portugal.
The Segment Ontology: Bridging Music-generic and Domain-specific Fields, Ben ; Page, Kevin R.; De Roure, David; and Crawford, Tim . 2011. 'The Segment Ontology: Bridging Music-generic and Domain-specific'. In: IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo, 3rd International Workshop on Advances in Music Information Research. Barcelona, Spain.
Recognising Classical Works in Historical Recordings Crawford, Tim ; Mauch, Matthias; and Rhodes, Christophe . 2010. 'Recognising Classical Works in Historical Recordings'. In: Proceedings of 11th Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval. Utrecht, Netherlands.
Semantics for Music Analysis through Linked Data: How Country is My Country? Page, Kevin R.; Fields, Ben ; Nagel, Bart J.; O'Neill, Gianni; Roure, David C. De; and Crawford, Tim . 2010. 'Semantics for Music Analysis through Linked Data: How Country is My Country?'. In: Sixth IEEE e–Science conference. Brisbane, Australia.

Report

Transcription of the Dresden Manuscript of the lute works of S. L. Weiss (1687-1750), Parts 1 and 2 Crawford, Tim . 2007. Transcription of the Dresden Manuscript of the lute works of S. L. Weiss (1687-1750), Parts 1 and 2. Other. Baerenreiter.
Facsimile and introductory study of the Dresden Manuscript of lute works by S. L. Weiss, Parts 1 and 2 Crawford, Tim . 2002. Facsimile and introductory study of the Dresden Manuscript of lute works by S. L. Weiss, Parts 1 and 2. Other. Baerenreiter.

Research Interests

Computational approaches to musicology
Music history, especially of the 16th to 18th centuries
Music for the western lute
Musical performances on record