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Transforming Practice: The Impact of Digital Scores on Creativity, Performance, and Accessibility (2025)
Journal Article
Moroz, S., & Vear, C. (2025). Transforming Practice: The Impact of Digital Scores on Creativity, Performance, and Accessibility. Tempo, 79(313), 56-69. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298225000129

This article presents an overview of findings from an ERC-funded DigiScore project that investigates how digital technologies are reshaping music creation, performance, and accessibility. Digital scores, defined as interactive interfaces for musical... Read More about Transforming Practice: The Impact of Digital Scores on Creativity, Performance, and Accessibility.

Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury (2025)
Journal Article
Parkes, H. (2025). Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury. Journal of Musicology, 42(2), 185-223

The eleventh-century manuscript Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Bodl. 38 is celebrated for its remarkable monastic horologium, or star timetable, which uses the stars to determine the timing of the Night Office liturgy. Recent scholarship has confirmed... Read More about Per florida ad astra: Musical Insights into the Monastic Star Timetable (Oxford, MS Bodley 38) and the Cultural Life of Early Eleventh-Century Fleury.

Seas of Silver: Songs to Reduce Plastic Waste in Vietnamese Waterways (2025)
Book Chapter
O'Briain, L. (2025). Seas of Silver: Songs to Reduce Plastic Waste in Vietnamese Waterways. In F.-J. Hernández Adrián, & A. Theocharis (Eds.), River Delta Futures: Endangered Communities in Audiovisual Media (177-194). Bloomsbury Publishing. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350417649.ch-9

Problems with waste and water management go back to colonial times in the major cities of mainland Southeast Asia. Over the past half century, the population of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam has doubled from 50 to 100 million. Prior to economic r... Read More about Seas of Silver: Songs to Reduce Plastic Waste in Vietnamese Waterways.

Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023 (2024)
Book Chapter
Moroz, S., & Vear, C. (2024). Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023. In K. A., P. R., M. I. C., P. J. B., G. S., O. M., D. H., W.-J. C., O. K., & S. A (Eds.), GAPS2 - Global Arts and Psychology Seminar "Creativity in music and the arts": 14-16 September 2023 York, Graz, La Plata, & Melbourne: BOOK OF ABSTRACTS. University of Graz. https://doi.org/10.25364/554.2024.1

At the start of 2023, DigiScore visited the US and North America to evaluate higher education music students’ wants and needs from digital musicianship education through engagement with digital scores. This work is part of the DigiScore research proj... Read More about Digital Musicianship: Evaluation of the Digital Score Research from the North American Tour 2023.

Transforming Practice with Digital Scores: Developments and Challenges in a Transcontinental Residency (2024)
Journal Article
Robertson, J., Moroz, S., Hope, C., Vear, C., Sanadzadeh, I., Svoboda, H., & Sobek, C. (2024). Transforming Practice with Digital Scores: Developments and Challenges in a Transcontinental Residency. Tempo, 78(309), 37-48. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0040298224000044

This article examines how practice-based researchers in a transcontinental intensive residency transformed their practice and developed their skills through composing digital scores. Four researchers from an Australian university undertook an intensi... Read More about Transforming Practice with Digital Scores: Developments and Challenges in a Transcontinental Residency.

Space Scratch Symphony (2024)
Other
Kelly, E. (2024). Space Scratch Symphony

"The Space Scratch Symphony is a world first, a symphony composed for - and with input from - Leicester & Leicestershire music students with inspiration and involvement from students in schools in the city and county by composer Elizabeth Kelly and a... Read More about Space Scratch Symphony.

Towards sentience: A path through jazz, datasets and digital scores (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Poltronieri, F., & Vear, C. (2024, June). Towards sentience: A path through jazz, datasets and digital scores. Paper presented at International Symposium of Electronic Art 2024, Brisbane, Australia

This short paper is a provocation in which we lean into the notion of sentience in Creative-AI music. The purpose of this is to highlight that a critical component when using bucket terms such as ”creativity”, ”intelligence” or ”sentience” in the des... Read More about Towards sentience: A path through jazz, datasets and digital scores.

Introduction (2024)
Journal Article
van Tour, P., & Baragwanath, N. (2024). Introduction. Music Theory and Analysis, 11(1), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.11.1.0

The study of European music in the long eighteenth century has advanced rapidly since the publication in 2007 of Robert O. Gjerdingen's Music in the Galant Style, which not only consolidated the theory of stock patterns (or schemas) used in compositi... Read More about Introduction.

Note-Naming, Galant Schemata, and the "Thread" of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins, Op.3 No.10 (RV 580) (2024)
Journal Article
Baragwanath, N. (2024). Note-Naming, Galant Schemata, and the "Thread" of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins, Op.3 No.10 (RV 580). Music Theory and Analysis, 11(1), 48-78. https://doi.org/10.11116/mta.11.1.3

Part I surveys the language code applied to the theory of Galant schemata, which builds upon Gjerdingen’s 2007 study of “stock musical patterns” in the eighteenth century. These are determined primarily by “contrapuntal skeletons” between descant and... Read More about Note-Naming, Galant Schemata, and the "Thread" of Vivaldi's Concerto for Four Violins, Op.3 No.10 (RV 580).

Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vear, C., Hazzard, A., Moroz, S., & Benerradi, J. (2024, May). Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making. Presented at CHI '24: Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Honalulu, Hawaii

This paper discusses the findings from a cross-sector research project investigating how a digital score created using AI and robotics might stimulate new creative opportunities and relationships within the practices of an inclusive music ensemble. T... Read More about Jess+: AI and robotics with inclusive music-making.

Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Vear, C., Poltronieri, F., DiDonato, B., Zhang, Y., Benerradi, J., Hutchinson, S., Turowski, P., Shell, J., & Malekmohamadi, H. (2024, April). Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making. Presented at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2024, Aberystwyth University, Wales

In this paper, we present our findings of the design, development and deployment of a proof-of-concept dataset that captures some of the physiological, musicological, and psychological aspects of embodied musicking. After outlining the conceptual ele... Read More about Building an Embodied Musicking Dataset for co-creative music-making.

Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Moroz, S., Vear, C., & Poltronieri, F. (2024, April). Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores. Presented at Ninth International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation, Zurich

This paper presents an evaluation of digital musicianship with digital scores. Primary data was gathered during the DigiScore “Roadshow”of North American universities’ music departments in 2023 and an extended research workshop in Avellino, Italy, 20... Read More about Evaluation of digital musicianship in higher education through playing and creating digital scores.

Generating emotional music based on improved C-RNN-GAN (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shi, X., & Vear, C. (2024, April). Generating emotional music based on improved C-RNN-GAN. Presented at 13th International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Music, Sound, Art and Design (EvoMUSART) 2024, Aberystwyth University, Wales

This study introduces an emotion-based music generation model built upon the foundation of C-RNN-GAN, incorporating conditional GAN, and utilizing emotion labels to create diverse emotional music. Two evaluation methods were employed in this study to... Read More about Generating emotional music based on improved C-RNN-GAN.

The Ocean of Sopranos: Career of a Castrato Singer, Luigi Marchesi (1754-1829) (2024)
Book
Aresi, S., Baragwanath, N., & Cafiero, R. (Eds.). (2024). The Ocean of Sopranos: Career of a Castrato Singer, Luigi Marchesi (1754-1829). Stile Galante

Luigi Marchesi (1754-1829), «The Ocean of Sopranos» — as Benedetto Frizzi called him — was one of the most famous and most popular singers of late-eighteenth-century Europe, an outstanding star who lit up the musical world from the ancien régime to t... Read More about The Ocean of Sopranos: Career of a Castrato Singer, Luigi Marchesi (1754-1829).