Multimedia in the Long Eighteenth Century

This paper describes a motivating digital humanities project for the analysis of music contained in more than 100,000 French and British works from the long eighteenth century along with the datasets, techniques and technology being developed to realize the initial goals. Additionally, the developed tools and an authoritative metadata repository will allow further analysis of paratext from other languages and time periods. Finally, a scholarly tool will be described that will provide resources for deeper study and allow for the more in-depth analysis of the evolution of published musical forms over time.