Resumen de Diagrammatic Analysis of J.S. Bach’s TheWell-Tempered Clavier Fugues, BWV 846–851
Anna Matuszewska, Christoph Seibert
The field of musicology is constantly being enriched with digital, searchable music data. This trend opens newresearch possibilities; conversely, it requires new abilities to work with numerous data sets efficiently. Digitaltools facilitate searching large music corpora and serve music analysis well. Nevertheless, there is still a potential to better harmonize research perspectives from musicology and computer science to make computationalanalysis outcomes more explicit, comprehensible, and flexible.The aim of this paper is to present new ways of handling, displaying, and considering musicological data.Music information from fugues BWV 846–851 composed by J.S. Bach, retrieved with Humdrum Tools and theMusic Processing Suite (MPS) software, was processed and translated into a relational database.1 The visualdisplay of the retrieved information was accomplished with dashboards using the data visualization softwareTableau Public.2 The possibility of comparing each fugue’s voices makes it easier to comprehend the knowledge hidden behind music data. Additional options enable further visual exploration of the analyses and ensure conditions for abduction under assumptions of diagrammatic reasoning as proposed by Charles SandersPeirce.
