Teaching Workshop: Editing and Digital Representation of Musical Texts and Sound Events
A.Y. 2025/2026
Learning objectives
The laboratory is dedicated to different types of digital tools for the representation and analysis of musical practices and objects. The course will focus on the notation software MuseScore, the sound analysis program Sonic Visualiser, and selected digital mapping environments used to investigate the geospatial dimension of musical cultures.
The main objective of the laboratory is to achieve a basic level of practical competence, developed through guided exercises. At the same time, the laboratory will include moments of critical reflection on the concept of visualization, with the aim of fostering an awareness of the limits and potential of different modes of digital representation.
The main objective of the laboratory is to achieve a basic level of practical competence, developed through guided exercises. At the same time, the laboratory will include moments of critical reflection on the concept of visualization, with the aim of fostering an awareness of the limits and potential of different modes of digital representation.
Expected learning outcomes
By the end of the laboratory, participants will have gained an overview of the digital tools currently available for the representation of musical practices and objects, and will be able to assess the effectiveness of different approaches in relation to specific analytical and research objectives.
Lesson period: Second semester
Assessment methods: Giudizio di approvazione
Assessment result: superato/non superato
Single course
This course cannot be attended as a single course. Please check our list of single courses to find the ones available for enrolment.
Course syllabus and organization
Single session
Responsible
Lesson period
Second semester
Course syllabus
-Overview of the relationship between musical practices and graphic representation (notation systems, spectrograms, data visualization)
-Digital score editing
-Basic principles of acoustics
-Reading and producing spectrograms for sound analysis
-Software for quantitative and qualitative digital mapping
-Digital score editing
-Basic principles of acoustics
-Reading and producing spectrograms for sound analysis
-Software for quantitative and qualitative digital mapping
Prerequisites for admission
Reading music.
Teaching methods
The course combines lectures and lab sessions. Software tools are first introduced through examples from current research, then applied in practice through guided tutorials.
Teaching Resources
CLAUDIO RIFFERO, Copista di musica digitalizzata, Milano: Volontè & co., 2016
PIETRO RIGHINI, L'acustica per il musicista: fondamenti fisici della musica, Milano: Ricordi, 1994
MARTIN NICASTRO, From Thin to Deep: Mapping Urban Music through Multimedia Web Apps, Sound Stage Screen, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024), https://doi.org/10.54103/sss22317
PIETRO RIGHINI, L'acustica per il musicista: fondamenti fisici della musica, Milano: Ricordi, 1994
MARTIN NICASTRO, From Thin to Deep: Mapping Urban Music through Multimedia Web Apps, Sound Stage Screen, Vol. 3 No. 2 (2024), https://doi.org/10.54103/sss22317
Assessment methods and Criteria
At the end of the workshop, students will submit an essay on topics proposed by the teacher. Evaluation will be based on the following criteria:
-Originality
-Understanding of the digital platforms used
-Originality
-Understanding of the digital platforms used
Professor(s)