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_id: '55834'
abstract:
- lang: eng
  text: Performance of music in the home was the means by which most works were received
    before the advent of audio recordings and broadcasts, yet the notation sources
    that form our primary record of this culture have not been the subject of comprehensive
    or methodical study. Choices made by arrangers adapting music for domestic consumption
    – of instrumentation, abbreviation, or simplification – reflect the musical life
    of the 19th century, and can inform our understanding alongside contemporary accounts
    such as newspapers, adverts, and diaries. This position paper gives the background,
    motivation, and proposed approach of research currently being undertaken within
    the Beethoven in the House project. This will include a study of Steiner editions
    of Beethoven’s 7th and 8th Symphonies and Wellingtons Sieg, making a detailed
    comparison between arrangements, systematically identifying a core common to multiple
    versions, and asking if this reflects the stated values of the publisher. A second
    survey will look for patterns across a larger sample of lesser-known and poorly
    catalogued scores, collating emergent indicators of arrangers’ motivations within
    a narrative of the domestic market – the music industry of its day. Both studies
    will innovate digital methods which characterise arrangements as music encodings,
    including ‘sparse’ approaches to notation and annotation.
author:
- first_name: Kevin R.
  full_name: Page, Kevin R.
  last_name: Page
- first_name: Johannes
  full_name: Kepper, Johannes
  id: '1684'
  last_name: Kepper
  orcid: 0000-0003-4891-260X
- first_name: Christine
  full_name: Siegert, Christine
  last_name: Siegert
- first_name: Andrew
  full_name: Hankinson, Andrew
  last_name: Hankinson
- first_name: David
  full_name: Lewis, David
  last_name: Lewis
citation:
  ama: 'Page KR, Kepper J, Siegert C, Hankinson A, Lewis D. Beethoven in the House:
    Digital Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements. In: Münnich S, Rizo D, eds. <i>Music
    Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021</i>. Humanities Commons; 2022:117–123. doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73">10.17613/389b-xx73</a>'
  apa: 'Page, K. R., Kepper, J., Siegert, C., Hankinson, A., &#38; Lewis, D. (2022).
    Beethoven in the House: Digital Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements. In S.
    Münnich &#38; D. Rizo (Eds.), <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021</i>
    (pp. 117–123). Humanities Commons. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73">https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73</a>'
  bibtex: '@inproceedings{Page_Kepper_Siegert_Hankinson_Lewis_2022, title={Beethoven
    in the House: Digital Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements}, DOI={<a href="https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73">10.17613/389b-xx73</a>},
    booktitle={Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021}, publisher={Humanities
    Commons}, author={Page, Kevin R. and Kepper, Johannes and Siegert, Christine and
    Hankinson, Andrew and Lewis, David}, editor={Münnich, Stefan and Rizo, David},
    year={2022}, pages={117–123} }'
  chicago: 'Page, Kevin R., Johannes Kepper, Christine Siegert, Andrew Hankinson,
    and David Lewis. “Beethoven in the House: Digital Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements.”
    In <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021</i>, edited by Stefan Münnich
    and David Rizo, 117–123. Humanities Commons, 2022. <a href="https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73">https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73</a>.'
  ieee: 'K. R. Page, J. Kepper, C. Siegert, A. Hankinson, and D. Lewis, “Beethoven
    in the House: Digital Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements,” in <i>Music Encoding
    Conference Proceedings 2021</i>, 2022, pp. 117–123, doi: <a href="https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73">10.17613/389b-xx73</a>.'
  mla: 'Page, Kevin R., et al. “Beethoven in the House: Digital Studies of Domestic
    Music Arrangements.” <i>Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021</i>, edited
    by Stefan Münnich and David Rizo, Humanities Commons, 2022, pp. 117–123, doi:<a
    href="https://doi.org/10.17613/389b-xx73">10.17613/389b-xx73</a>.'
  short: 'K.R. Page, J. Kepper, C. Siegert, A. Hankinson, D. Lewis, in: S. Münnich,
    D. Rizo (Eds.), Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021, Humanities Commons,
    2022, pp. 117–123.'
date_created: 2024-08-28T11:42:27Z
date_updated: 2024-08-28T14:10:51Z
department:
- _id: '874'
doi: 10.17613/389b-xx73
editor:
- first_name: Stefan
  full_name: Münnich, Stefan
  last_name: Münnich
- first_name: David
  full_name: Rizo, David
  last_name: Rizo
keyword:
- BitH
- mec-proceedings
- mec-proceedings-2021
language:
- iso: eng
main_file_link:
- open_access: '1'
  url: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:45995/
oa: '1'
page: 117–123
publication: Music Encoding Conference Proceedings 2021
publication_identifier:
  isbn:
  - 978-84-13-02173-7
publication_status: published
publisher: Humanities Commons
status: public
title: 'Beethoven in the House: Digital Studies of Domestic Music Arrangements'
type: conference
user_id: '1684'
year: '2022'
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