Audio Technical Metadata Extension Schema (AUDIOMD)

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Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music

Posted by Paul Spence on February 25, 2015

Aims to promote the study of music as performance through a specific focus on recordings. Its activities include a major discographic project, seminars and research projects.

Traditionally, music has been studied as a text reproduced in performance - almost as if it were an obscure kind of literature. By placing performance at the centre of musicology - by promoting a musicology based on recordings and not just scores - CHARM aims to reduce the gulf between musicology and the listener. CHARM addresses three fundamental problems:

Academic field
Music
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Musicians of Britain and Ireland 1900-1950

Posted by Paul Spence on February 25, 2015

The project provides recordings of performances by British and Irish musicians made between 1900 and 1950. owing to changes in company policy in the 1930s, their work was gradually excluded and mush of it forgotten. MBI is accessible through an attractive online search interface that also gives access to the complete recorded output of the AHRC Research Centre for the History and Analysis of Recorded Music (CHARM).

Academic field
Music