[Foundations] Introduction to Digital Approaches in Music Research (DHSI 2026)

Description

This course introduces current practices in encoding, analysing and presenting music information. It will begin by introducing the philosophy, theory, and practicalities behind encoding symbolic music notation and will then explore pathways for analyzing and publishing that encoded data. Participants should have a basic knowledge of how to read music, but no prior experience with coding or XML is assumed.

Instructor(s)

Timothy Duguid is senior lecturer in Digital Humanities and Information Studies at the University of Glasgow. His current research interests lie in the intersection between digital humanities and historical musicology. In particular, he is focused discoverability for digital research outputs in music, working on a virtual research environment called Music Scholarship Online (MuSO) that will draw together published scholarship, digitized archival materials, and born-digital scholarship into a single online portal. He is also working on a digital edition of the Scottish metrical psalms dating from 1564 to 1640. In addition to providing musical editions of each of the psalm tunes within the psalter, it will provide, for the first time, the Scots transliterations along the anglophone psalm texts. He holds a Ph.D. in music history from the University of Edinburgh in the area of early modern English and Scottish liturgical music, with particular focus on metrical psalmody. His work on Reformation history and early modern music resulted in the creation of a performing edition of the Wode Psalter, an early modern music collection, and he was associate editor for the digital project “Letters in Exile: Documents from the Marian Exile.”