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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

the collection is now more interoperable for various use cases including as a distinct data set for research, and also for engaging within individual exercise exercises with VHV: Fourscoreandmore 🔗: fourscoreandmore.org/species/ GitHub 🔗: github.com/MarkGotham/s...

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Species

A social initiative providing high-quality musical resources.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

One such corpus = one I made a while ago (c.2019) for pedagogical purposes, including as part of the Open Music Theory textbook (OMT). (And the OMT chapters are still there: viva.pressbooks.pub/openmusicthe...

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Introduction to Species Counterpoint – Open Music Theory

Open Music Theory is a natively-online open educational resource intended to serve as the primary text and workbook for undergraduate music theory curricula.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Multi-announce 📣 Open data talk: www.mdw.ac.at/veranstaltun... + a new publication 📄 🔗: doi.org/10.5334/johd... + a new entry point to the newly expanded lieder corpus: fourscoreandmore.org/openscore/li... + this prompted a re-org of fourscoreandmore.org/score/ and more corpora.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Congrats 🎉 Next photo: What’s the supervisor drinking?

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music-encoding.bsky.social @music-encoding.bsky.social · 28/03/2025

Registration for the Music Encoding Conference 2025 in London, UK is now open! Take advantage of early bird registration through April 30th and reserve your spot at music-encoding.org/conference/2.... #MEI #MusicEncodingInitiative #digitalmusicology

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Daniel Chávez Heras @dchavezheras.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Great opportunity for talented colleagues to join interdisciplinary AI research at King's. 3 years of protected research time leading to an open-ended academic post. @kingsartshums.bsky.social @kingsdh.bsky.social @kings-dfi.bsky.social Join us!

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Awesome! Bet you aced it all too. Here’s to many more such days. Find memories of those Gatwick sleeping of pods. Or maybe you get something fancier 😂

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

📣 new paper 📣 Parallel or variant? 🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇨🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 As an Englishman teaching in Germany I was amazed at just how different the German– and English– speaking music theory lexicons (still) are in our ostensibly globalised age. 🇩🇪 🇦🇹🇨🇭🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 🇺🇸 Curious? Announcing 📣 our survey: www.gmth.de/zeitschrift/...

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ZGMTH - Studie zur Harmonielehre an Hochschulen und Universitäten im deutschsprachigen Raum und im internationalen Vergleich

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

Thanks all! Bravo on the important paper @tuomaseerola.bsky.social and team! @michelle-phillips.bsky.social , hello from a TISMIR rep (current EB, incoming EiC) in listening mode! Let’s share notes sometime! Some shared issues, some differences. Lots of open code/data at least.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

And singing along is frowned upon for some reason! Even in the good bits!

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Sounds cool! If composed out echo effects are in scope I have a couple of attack-sustain examples in my orchestration chapters for Open Music Theory. Britten, Sibelius, Debussy if I remember right. If that’s of interest I’ll dig up the URL for you.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

In addition, key to transparency is effective attribution and that’s vv difficult to achieve. Eg a mash up = many samples = countless contributors, poorly documented in metadata. We’ve seen cases before where well-intentioned policy ends up adversely affecting only the well-intentioned.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

Doubly good of you to come to my department seminar in that case! Thanks! … do I owe you some email triage now?

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

🚨 Unimportant Terminology Question no.265326 🚨 Membership on here is soaring! Great time to shore up the terminology. (Or not!) If on bird 🐦 themed platforms posts were called “tweets” 🐥, does what are they here 🦋? … “bolts ⚡️from the blue”?

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Wholesome and laudable! Keep it up!

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

😂 nice take 🤣 Starter pack listing live music venues, friendly bars, interesting museums. Oh wait … that’s a travel guide

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Thanks for the encouragement! I’ve had one in the “book inbox“ waiting patiently behind too many others for too long. It’s time! And maybe time too for a KCL book club (only fiction allowed)

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

+1. I was intrigued to hear how the dynamic between @ednewtonrex.bsky.social as keynote and certain companies in the room would play out. Didn’t disappoint.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Thanks! So shall we keep the league tables but insist on plotting them with error bars? Or is that just an undifferentiated smudge of overlaps?

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

Welcome! I think the first record I ever owned was one of yours! Now to think 💭 of any conductor jokes that’s suitable for writing down in public …

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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 23/10/2024

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this we’re launching a call for screenshots. Further details can be found at: troubling-ai.glitch.me

screenshot reads: "How can screenshots trouble our understanding of Al?" Full text can be found at: https://troubling-ai.glitch.me/

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Mark J. Hill @mrak.bsky.social · 17/10/2024

The Computational Humanities Research Group at KCL continues research seminars this term. You can find events here: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/serie... - however, one that's not yet on the calendar is a talk by @heuser.bsky.social - click below to register. #digitalhumanities #intellectualhistory

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Computing Koselleck: Modelling Semantic Revolutions, 1720–1960 (Ryan Heuser and KCL)

Explore the evolution of language and thought through history with Ryan Heuser and KCL at Computing Koselleck: Modelling Semantic Revolution

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

… Flaubert would probably not think much of east anglia … not a lot of hills here either and certainly not a lot to boast about in the Neufchâtel cheese department 🧀

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 07/11/2024

Also doubly on-brand for you as a cellist … going “higher up” the fingerboard …

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

😂. Also comes with a “how’s your PhD going” vibe? Found any ancient cities complete with incongruous manuscripts yet?

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 30/10/2024

Ah shame, I was with you right up to the Bach comment and then you lost me. Some days 349 voices are just not enough! SANCTUS!!!

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 25/10/2024

Do it! There’s some app dev and published literature on at least piano 🎹 and violin 🎻

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Have you added them in a proper notation file? If so, assuage your pain by exporting them and (very gradually) building a dataset!

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Does anyone else see “WFH”, think it’s “WTF” and have to do a double take? 😳 Looks like everyone posting job advertisements drops character. Or maybe 🤔 it’s just honest. 3 days sensible work and 2 days of WTF 🤷‍♀️

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 24/10/2024

Do you have any in/out converters working? Am I right in thinking that Lilypond and Tex are the last holdouts for notation systems that credible but basically disconnected islands.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 20/10/2024

Oh ok! Author delay is a different story. Hope you're doing well now. Btw, both Galeazzi and "music and/or computer science" were the focus of a thing we published in ISMIR 2020. In case of interest, this link goes straight to paper, posters, and video. program.ismir2020.net/poster_2-05....

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ISMIR 2020: Discourse Not Dualism: an Interdisciplinary Dialogue on Sonata Form in Beethoven's Early Piano Sonatas

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 19/10/2024

Awesome 😎! Congrats @rebeccakopriva.bsky.social ! Looking forward to reading this. …But first I need to process the line after the abstract. “Received October 2022”. It’s been a while and I’d almost forgotten about publication schedules in the humanities.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 15/10/2024

Oh well … best embrace your new life and do the second round submission and rebuttal for them

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 25/09/2024

Then one day … along comes Elvis Costello … and that’s that. 🤣

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 23/09/2024

I hear you. Sending empathy. Alcohol too. “Phew what a day, I’ve earned a stiff drink” is almost always counter productive … because then there’s the night …

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Strange plotting choice. Shouldn’t the other line plot “rest of world”?

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

So we have the teleportation 🛸scene at the back … The reverse stand… possibly for the conductor who’s taking the “photo” 📸 … erm … mid performance … And speaking of stands … an orchestra playing entirely from memory except that conductor and a couple of desks who didn’t get the memo

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 18/09/2024

I think they are taking the “photo” 📸 … erm … mid-performance.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

Hey 👋 music people. Whose up for filling this place with micro musical analyses?🙋‍♂️🙋‍♀️ What rules? Maybe 🤔 half-baked ideas💡only (ie prompt for discussion rather than grandstanding). How to connect 🤔? Maybe #micromusicalmusing ? Open to ideas!

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 15/09/2024

… with apologies for being “that guy” commenting off topic … Depictions of flute playing often incorrectly show both hands on the same side of the instrument … … here the instrument itself is on the wrong side. Has the image been reversed or is it really designed like this? What’s the source?

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 27/08/2024

Thanks Jon! Do you have a preferred citation for these online resources (this and the time line of musical notation?)

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 26/08/2024

All musical 🎵🎻🎤 data All music-adjacent data 📹🕹️ All multimodal connections 🤝 We have a paper drafted on this and would welcome feedback from across musicology and music computing (broadly defined!). Please DM or email (@ KCL). Thanks! Here’s to awesome 😎 novel connections to expand our field.

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 25/08/2024

Time 🕰️ to start work on the music facts then? 🤣

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Mark Gotham @markgotham.bsky.social · 23/08/2024

Fun thread! Mine are: 🇬🇧 Queen Elizabeth II … ’s mother and husband (but not her) 🇩🇪 Gerhard Schröder (Chancellor of Germany from 1998 to 2005) and wife (no.5 … he makes a joke about “olympics” because of the 5 rings) … And many classical musicians. No salacious gossip to report.

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