The EsAC Collection: Origins, New Musical Resources, and Technical Developments
The EsAC Collection: Origins, New Musical Resources, and Technical Developments
Author(s): Ewa Dahlig-Turek, Anna Matuszewska, Craig Stuart SappSubject(s): Music
Published by: Instytut Sztuki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: computational musicology; EsAC; Humdrum; traditional music;
Summary/Abstract: The EsAC (Essener Assoziativ Code), developed in the 1980s with tools for editing and analysis, is among the most important formats in digital musicology. Its core dataset, the Essen Folksong Collection, inspired many related projects worldwide. A key example is the Polish corpus of over 20,000 transcriptions from Oskar Kolberg’s Complete Works, encoded in EsAC (2014–22) and later converted to Humdrum. The article outlines EsAC syntax, the Polish dataset, and new Verovio Humdrum Viewer features supporting both formats for in-depth analysis.
Journal: Muzyka
- Issue Year: 70/2025
- Issue No: 4
- Page Range: 109-123
- Page Count: 15
- Language: English
