ZenMEM is and has been involved in various edition projects, both in music editions based on MEI and the Edirom tools as well as in text editions based on TEI. The following overview presents a selection of these projects.
Freischütz Digital
Following the draft of a concept for genuinely digital music editions based on Frans Wiering's Multidimensional Model, a proof of concept was to be provided for both the possibilities of new edition methods and the associated new questions using the example of Weber's Freischütz.
“Henze Digital” is dedicated to Henze's correspondence with the librettists Wystan Hugh Auden/Chester Kallman, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Grete Weil/Walter Jokisch, Friedrich Hitzer, as well as Miguel Barnet as the author of important texts and with Henze's patron and client Paul Sacher.
The digital edition of the WeGA includes all of Weber's letters, diaries and writings and makes them available online in a scholarly-critical edition under a free license.
The edition of the Ouverture, Entreacte, Choruses and Songs to Goethe's Faust in the arrangement by Carl Seydelmann and Peter Joseph von Lindpaintner reproduces the literary and musical text according to the autograph sources, i.e. the text and music manuscripts in connection with the first performance, Stuttgart 1832.
The third version of the Digital Edition of Weber's Clarinet Quintet op. 34 once again marks a milestone in digital music philology: it not only makes the digital data ‘re-runnable’, but also significantly increases its accessibility and reusability.
Within the current field of studies on the mobilities of Early Modern musicians, the operatic pasticcio (i.e. a most popular genre consisting of the arrangement of pre-existing musical material for opera performances) has emerged as a paradigmatic musical genre of European musical life during the 18th century.
The musical and archival sources on the history of the Detmold court theater held in the Lippische Landesbibliothek Detmold are preserved in unusual breadth and abundance. They are supplemented by materials from the NRW State Archives (personnel files etc.) and the Lower Saxony State Archives (playbills).
