Tanz/Musik digital

The aim of the project is to develop an editing method with which the information from the diverse sources on dance - iconographic documents, music, drama and rhetoric schools, archive documents - can be digitally linked in a comprehensive multimodal structural model. With regard to dance, four-dimensional movement analyses (including spatial dimensions and temporal progression), visualizations and analyses of dance poses, animated gestures and dance steps with information from music, images and texts will be integrated into the overall edition. To this end, Henner Drewes will further develop his MovEngine software, which has already been tested as a prototype and enables a formal description and four-dimensional modeling of human body movement. On the other hand, the Edirom technology for digital music editions will be supplemented by a module for the representation of movement. Franz Anton Hilverding and Joseph Starzer's ballet La Guirlande enchantée (1757), which has survived in the form of music manuscripts, several scenic images from the Giacomo Durazzo collection and a scenic description in the Journal encyclopédique, Philipp Gumpenhuber's theater chronology, serves as a case study. Information on dance will be supplemented by a dance library with feuillet choreographies and a 'repertoire of gestures' compiled from descriptions such as John Weaver's The Loves of Venus and Mars or Gilbert Austin's Chironomia.

Funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG).