Fifteen graduate students from Columbia University and Sorbonne University will participate in two-week workshops in Paris in January 2019 and in New York in April 2019. Elliot Adam is a third-year PhD student in Art History and Archeology at Sorbonne … Continue reading →

Come to the Music and Arts Library  at Columbia on Friday, April 20 to hear lightning presentations of new research and musical performances by the members of FAB-Musiconis, the Columbia-Sorbonne collaborative project on medieval images of music and the digital humanities. This … Continue reading →

On June 24 at 2 pm at the Columbia Global Center | Paris (Reid Hall), Professor Stephen Murray (Department of Art History and Archaeology). will give a public presentation of his interactive website Life of a Cathedral: Notre-Dame of Amiens, developed in the Media … Continue reading →

Aline Poirier, Paris-Sorbonne Universités Le 12 janvier 2017, André Bonjour, chartrain, professseur, et Xavier Terasa, musicien professionnel, tous deux membres de l‘Instrumentarium de Chartres, nous ont accueillis au musée de beaux arts de Chartres devant la vitrine d’exposition des instruments … Continue reading →

Eamonn Bell In a previous post, Mark Saccomano described how ontologies can be used to enrich database entries with semantic information to help users find relevant records quickly with the help of a search interface. In this blog post, I … Continue reading →

Claire Dillon (Columbia University) Morgan Dickson (Université de Picardie Jules Verne) gave a paper on “Nightingales in Literary Texts and Images” at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris as part of the lecture series “Arts et musique au … Continue reading →

Russell O’Rourke (Columbia University) In his lecture “Music and Architecture: A Shared Aesthetic of the Flamboyant,” given on January 12th at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris, as part of the series “Arts et musique au Moyen Âge,” … Continue reading →

John Glasenapp, OSB (Columbia University) Chartres Cathedral boasts the largest number of musical representations within it of any Gothic cathedral. There are a total of 312 images of music performance, including 26 different instruments, concentrated especially on the Western frontispiece, … Continue reading →

By Mike Ford (Columbia University) In his presentation at INHA’s seminar “Arts et musique au Moyen Age”  in January 2018, Henry Hope (Universität Bern) argued against the widely-held belief that music (as opposed to poetry) did not enjoy a position … Continue reading →

By Mark Saccomano (Columbia University) María Victoria Eyharabide is Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Sorbonne -Université and a developer on the Musiconis database project. As part of the program of seminars on the digital humanities offered to FAB-Musiconis participants, … Continue reading →

We are delighted to announce the newly selected participants in FAB-Musiconis for this year’s working sessions in Paris (2-15 January 2018) and New York (13-27 April 2018). Columbia Graduate Student Participants for 2017-18 Eamonn Bell is a fifth-year PhD candidate … Continue reading →

by Sadegh Ansari On 4 January 2017 at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art, in the seminar Lieux et espaces en musique: la Renaissance italienne (part of the series L’iconographie musicale et l’art occidental), Tim Shephard (University of Sheffield) gave … Continue reading →

by Valérie Nunes-Le Page How is music, in all its dimensions, represented and understood according to various notions and views? Musiconis is a database for musical iconography. However, it is still a work in progress. For the FAB-Musiconis project, we … Continue reading →

by Ershad Vaeztehrani This seminar at the IReMus (Institut de recherche en Musicologie) on January 4 was organized by Fabien Guilloux, who is working on the Euterpe Project. He started with a presentation of the IReMus and its history. IReMus … Continue reading →

Séminaire sur « La notation musicale », de Professeur Nicolas MEEUS Jeudi 5 janvier 2017, Université Paris-Sorbonne Post: Florentin MOREL Ayant eu lieu à l’Université Paris-Sorbonne (Centre Clignancourt) le 5 janvier 2017, le séminaire sur la notation musicale fut organisé … Continue reading →

By Tori Schmitt The purpose of creating and using an ontology within the context of a database is to discover new knowledge. As we learned in the first Musiconis session on ontologies and linked data, a well-constructed ontology allows for … Continue reading →