Science Dissemination Activities 2016 (Działalność Upowszechniająca Naukę - DUN)
Transcription, scoring and access to the old music scores from the collections of the Wroclaw University Library
(time of completion: June - November 2016)
The project was realized with the financial support of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education - Activities Popularizing Science 546/P-DUN/2016.
The main objective of the task was to make a transcriptions of notes, which were carried by the staff of the University Library and the project partners - Wrocławscy Kameraliści (Wroclaw's Chamber Musicians). According to the objective of the project transcriptions included 230 music sheets published in the 19th century and 100 music sheets from manuscripts and music old prints. For creation of the 230 transcriptions of the 19th century the works the following collections of Polish patriotic folk songs were selected:
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"Śpiewnik narodowy Związku Kół Śpiewackich na Westfalię, Nadrenję i s. prow. wydany na cześć zmartwychwstałej i niepodległej Polski...",
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"Wspomnienia roku 1830-1831 (Wiersze, pieśni z muzyką, marsze wojska polskiego, odnoszące się do tej epoki)",
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"Śpiewnik szkolny zawierający w I. części pieśni w kościele katolickim używane, ułożone na 4 mieszane głosy (z organem). W II. części jedno i dwugłosowe piosnki świeckie rozłożone na 4 klasy -w 6cio oddziałowych szkołach ludowych, oraz okolicznościowe kantaty i powinszowania".
When selecting works from prints published before the 19th century the main criterion was uniqueness of works or Silesian provenance. And so, among the music items, which were transcribed to the music sheets, were works created by such Silesian artists as, inter alia, Samuel Besler (1574-1625) and Gregor Lange (1552-1587), as well as unique works of Nicholas Zieleński (1550-1616). In the project were also used WUL's manuscripts' collections, from which transcriptions of the 34 vocal works belonging to the historical collection of George Rudolf - prince of Legnica from the Piast line, were made. The collection of the financed transcriptions is available at: https://www.bibliotekacyfrowa.pl/dlibra/collectiondescription/209.
Music scores are available through cloud services MuseScore (https://musescore.com/), allowing online presentation of the sound version of the notes and downloading them in multiple editable (mscz, MusicXML), presentational (PDF) and audio (mp3) formats.
Access to the transcriptions is possible from both the MuseScore service and Digital Library of University of Wroclaw (DLoUoW), in which a dedicated collection "Music transcriptions" was created https://www.bibliotekacyfrowa.pl/dlibra/collectiondescription?dirids=209, DLoUoW is a part of the domestic Federation of the Digital Libraries, that is linked to the European Digital Library - Europeana, which guarantees the inclusion of the digital items presented in DLoUoW in a global scientific network and sharing music notations in a electronic sound versions. The creation of such tool greatly expands the possibilities for presentation of the existing musical resources by forms that allow to listen to them and to use them further by musicians - both professionals and amateurs related to the world of music.