TROMPA has developed CLARA (Companion for Long-term Analyses of Rehearsal Attempts), a powerful tool for review of rehearsal progress. CLARA allows instrumental players to capture, gather, and compare rehearsal recordings, providing insights on the evolution of performative aspects over time. Musicians may revisit and review their rehearsals, using the musical score as a means of navigating through their rehearsal recordings. The rehearsals are aligned with a digital score encoded using the Music Encoding Initiative’s MEI format, allowing specific aspects of each performance (e.g., the tempo) to be visualised against the musical score. This provides immediate feedback regarding corresponding stylistic and technical aspects of the musician’s rehearsal renditions.
CLARA is available at https://clara.trompamusic.eu
In a series of user studies conducted at Vienna’s University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna (mdw), we interviewed piano students to learn about their rehearsal practice, and to better understand the beneficial role that digital tooling could play, in order to inform our development activities.
All piano works by Ludwig van Beethoven are now encoded in MEI format and freely available at the TROMPA Music Encodings Repo. The encodings follow the first complete edition by Breitkopf and Härtel published between 1862 and 1890.
To mark the occasion of Clara Schumann's 200th birthday, we've published a first prototype of our TROMPA Rehearsal Companion for Instrumental Players (more info here!) loaded with 3 renditions of her Romanze in a-minor synchronised to a digital score encoding in Music Encoding Intiative's MEI format using Linked Data.
Many instrumental players actively make use of online music resources, in order to find and learn new repertoire. In TROMPA, we will work on ways to support this process, e.g. by offering better insight into various performances of the same piece, by researching automatic difficulty assessment of unknown pieces, and by devising rehearsal monitoring and supporting tools.
Keep watching this page for future updates, and get involved!
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This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme H2020-EU.3.6.3.1. - Study European heritage, memory, identity, integration and cultural interaction and translation, including its representations in cultural and scientific collections, archives and museums, to better inform and understand the present by richer interpretations of the past under grant agreement No 770376. |