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Pathétique

• A Super Duper Hyper Media Production in its
  Initial Phase

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music
music
music
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HyperMedia Production of Cajkovskij's 6th
Symphonyin b minor, op 74, Pathétique

• The project is devoted to develop and publish a
  hyper media representation of Cajkovskij's 6th
  Symphony which will allow the user to browse the
  different media and materials as hyperlinked
  multi media documents.

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Pathétique

• The project interacts with the New Cajkovskij
  Edition (NCE), i.e. the New Edition of
  Cajkovskij's complete works, published since 1993
  both by Muzyka, Moscow and B. Schott's Söhne,
  Mainz it is based on volumes of NCE either
  already published or to appear.

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Pathétique - Objectives I

• The potential of the multi media technology
  should provide added value to the users, i.e.
  easy access to different media comfortable
  representation of different media at the same
  time support to compare different sources,
  e.g. draft, score, piano score

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Pathétique - Objectives II

• Added value, i.e. study the process of
  composing browse additional related materials
  listen to recordings of the symphony or of
  Caijkovskij's four handed piano score
  demonstration of editorial issues (not only of
  the New Cajkovskij Edition)

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Pathétique - Target Group

• In this sense, the production addresses 1.
  musicologists 2. practitioners like
  conductors, instrumentalists 3. students
  4.amateurs

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Pathétique - Media I

• There are different (types of) media to be
• presented (and linked), in detail
• audio recording of Cajkovskij's 6th Symphony
  by the Russian National Orchestra directed by
  Mikhail Pletnev recording of Cajkovskij's
  four handed piano score by the Duo Crommelynck

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Pathétique - Media II

• score (New Cajkovskij Edition, NCE II/39b)
• critcal notes by Thomas Kohlhase (New
  Cajkovskij Edition, to appear)
• autograph of draft (New Cajkovskij Edition, NCE
  II/39a)
• commentary to autograph of score (New
  Cajkovskij Edition, NCE II/39a)

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Pathétique - Media III

• autograph of score (Old Cajkovskij Edition, OCE,
  State Publishers Music Moscow, 1970)
• score of Cajkovskij's four handed piano score
  (Old Cajkovskij Edition, OCE Vol 48, Moscow 1964)
  
• related materials indices, letters, concert
  programmes etc.

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• score NCE II/39b

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• critcal notes by Thomas Kohlhase (NCE, to
  appear)

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• autograph of draft (NCE II/39a)

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• score of Cajkovskij's four handed piano score
  (OCE Vol 48, Moscow 1964)

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• related materials indices, registers,
  letters, concert programmes etc.

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Pathétique - Media Relations

• These media are strongly interrelated 'no
  source is an island just by itself'.

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Pathétique - Technicalities

• Formats and possible Target Formats
• critical notes SIGNUM!.sdo gt WORD.doc gt
  Acrobat.pdf
• score SCORE.mus gt MusixTeX.tex gt Acrobat.pdf
• piano score, draft facsimile, score facsimile
  scanned images gt Acrobat.pdf

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Pathétique - Technicalities

• commentary Schott gt Acrobat.pdf
• materials various formats gt Acrobat.pdf
• audio audio-CD gt mp3
• An overview on existing formats can be found in
  musical notation codes.

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Pathétique - Hyperlinks

• pdf gt pdf per navigation in and between pdf
  documents
• score gt audio per JavaScript
• audio gt score per director / flash

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Pathétique - Quantity Structure I

• audio
• 45' recording of the 6th Symphony
• 40' recording of the four handed piano score
• score 228 pages NCE as SCORE files
• critcal notes including indices 120 pages (to be
  revised) as ATARI SIGNUM! files
• autograph of draft 72 pages, files from the
  publisher

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Pathétique - Quantity Structure II

• commentary to autograph of score 80 pages, files
  from the publisher
• score of Cajkovskij's four handed piano score 84
  pages on paper
• autograph of score 84 pages on paper
• related materials on different media, in various
  formats

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Pathétique - Prototype

• A prototype application is under construction
• using Macromedia's director in order
• to specify general requirements of the user
  interface and communicate about features
• to specify technical requirements w.r.t.
  usability, user friendliness, platforms etc.

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Pathétique - some related links

• Cajkowskij International Cajkovskij Society
• Score http//www.scoremus.com/ and
  http//ace.acadiau.ca/score/links3.htm with score
  previewer
• Sibelius http//www.sibelius.com/ with web
  browser Scorch
• MusixTeX MusixTeX, MusicTeX ...
• LilyPond LilyPond oder LilyPond
• Finale Finale2100 with MusicViewer
  http//www.codamusic.com/coda/fin_viewer.asp?
• experimental Java Music Specification Language
  with export to Score