Indexing and digitalisation of the „Music of Man Archive“ and therewith the development of a naton-wide usable database with ethnomusicological relevant archive materials that can be provided by several locations.

• Stock: about 50.000 records, 9.000 relevant books and journals, 2.850 video tapes and almost 1.000 instruments
• For more information see Schneidt et al. (2008). Access to the Music of Man Archive: The MARIMBRO System. Information Access to Cultural Heritage ECDL 2008 Workshop, 18.9.2008, Aarhus, Denmark.

Project partners:

• University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover, Department World Music
• University of Hildesheim, Center for World Music
• Common Library Network - GBV - Göttingen
• DISMARC - discovering music archives
• Foundation of Lower Saxony

Development of a digital analysis and synthesis system for wind instrument sounds that is based on the pulse forming theory.

• Abstract german
• Abstract english
• Project details in Oehler, M. (2008). Die digitale Impulsformung als Werkzeug für die Analyse und Synthese von Blasinstrumentenklängen. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
• A description of an experiment, where the developped system was used to generate the stimuli, can be found in Oehler, M. & Reuter C. (2007). Vibrato experiments with bassoon sounds by means of the digital pulse forming synthesis and analysis framework. Proceedings of the 123rd AES Convention, 5.-8.10.2007, New York, USA.
• Further informationen about the Variophon and the pulse forming theory: www.variophon.de and www.chr-reuter.de
• funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG)

Project partners:

• Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne
• Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna
• German Research Foundation (DFG)

The main objective of the WWTF-funded (Vienna Science and Technology Fund) project was to develop a universal online content management system that can be used by archives, libraries, collections, museums and musicological institutes to index, tag and publish their collections according to musicologial principles. Central parts of the project were:

• www.schubert-online.at - a virtual collection of Franz Schubert's autographs and at the same time a reference archive and publishing system for the display of digitized manuscripts on the internet.
• Field trip database of the Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna. A content management system for the publication of materials that were obtained during ethnomusicological field trips.
• "Klangwelt Wien" - from the collections of the Austrian Audiovisual Research Archive in Vienna - a virtual exhibition of selected audio material from the Austrian Audiovisual Research Archive of the Austrian Academy of Sciences.
• The virtual Superpiano - a multimedial implementation of the (non working) "Superpiano" of Emerich Spielmann within the instrumental collection of the Technisches Museum Vienna.

Further information: Institute of Applied Musicology and Psychology Cologne/Vienna

Project partners:

• Institute of Applied Musicology and Psychology Cologne/Vienna
• Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna
• Technisches Museum Vienna
• Vienna City Library
• The Austrian Audiovisual Research Archive Vienna
• Vienna Science and Technology Fund

Development of a database and (online-)publishing-system. The collection of digitized opera manuscripts is one of the largest manuscript collections that is published on the internet (more than 350.000 pages).

• Online resource: www.oper-um-1800.uni-koeln.de
• The online database contains informationen about 2900 operas that were performed in Vienna, Dresden, Berlin, Munich and Weimar between 1770 and 1830. The repertory is represented in form of 483 manuscripts that outline a cross-section of opera productions at that time.
• Research opportunities cencern particular libretti and opera as well as specific versions, the performance series and performance dates. Further there is the possibility, to search for composers, librettists and performance venues.

Project partners:

• Institute of Applied Musicology and Psychology Cologne/Vienna
• Musicological Institute of the University of Cologne
• Romanistic Institute of the University of Bonn
• Bavarian State Library
• State Library Berlin - The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation
• SLUB Dresden
• Thüringisches Landesmusikarchiv (in the archive of the University of Music "Franz Liszt" Weimar) - German National Theatre Weimar
• Austrian State Library
• German Research Foundation (DFG)

Development of a source and work database for the music manauscripts of Arnold Schönberg in cooperation with the Schönberg Center in Vienna. A representative selection of the collection of some thousand of pages of autographs from Schönberg’s legacy are presentetd as digitized facsimiles.

• Online resource: www.schoenberg.at
• Thus far, all hand-written sources shich relate to the process of composition, from initial music sketches to the fair copies and “Stichvorlagen” have been selected.

Project partners:

• Institute of Applied Musicology and Psychology Cologne/Vienna
• Arnold Schönberg Center Vienna

• Archive and publication system for the Gluck Collective Edition Mainz
• Microfilm database - Musicological Institutes of the University of Vienna / University of Basel
• Mozart database - Musicological Institute of the University of Vienna
• Asset management system for the Austrian Audiovisual Research Archive Vienna
• and much more