Presentation at 2015 IAML / IMS Congress

1. MUSICA BRASILIS
the challenge of making available a digital
collection of Brazilian music scores
2015 IAML/IMS Congress, New York City, USA

2. Difficult access to music scores
• 80% of Brazilian repertoire has never been edited (Castagna)
• Main collections
✓ BNRJ and BAN (UFRJ)
✓ mostly local access only, difficult copying
• Editors ceasing activities
✓ 2000 new titles each year at the beginning of 20th century
✓ now, only songbooks are still edited
• Sponsored editions without separate parts (FUNARTE)
• Web
✓ ABM (Brazilian Music Academy) displays a list of scores only
✓ Musica Brasilis, SESC Partituras
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3. Initial Scope (2009)
• Written music: first classical , then popular
• Public domain
• José Maurício Nunes Garcia (1763 – 1830)
✓main composer of the beginning 19th century
✓50 scores with separate parts
• Ernesto Nazareth (1863 – 1934)
✓integral work for piano: 218 scores
• Alberto Nepomuceno(1864 – 1920)
✓precursor of nationalism
✓25 scores with separate parts
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4. Scores: present scope
• Sponsored editions
✓Popular composers of the beginning 20th
✓Anacleto de Medeiros, Sinhô, Cândido das
Neves
• Out-of-print editions by Vitale
• Contemporary composers
✓Edmundo Villani-Côrtes
✓Nestor de Hollanda Cavalcanti
✓Baden Powell
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5. Scope: additional contents
• Open educational resources
- Obligatory musical education in schools
- information about composers, instruments
- articles about genres, music history
- music games with Brazilian repertoire
- augmented scores
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6. Monthly Analytics
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7. Geographical distribution
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8. Future Work
◆ Augmented Score
◆ Online catalogs
✓ César Guerra-Peixe
✓ Religious music
✓ Alberto Nepomuceno
◆ Linked open data
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9. www.musicabrasilis.org
musicabrasilis
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