Kontrapunktwerkstatt XVII. News and (Digital) Perspectives on «Vicentino21»

Program On 7–8 May 2021, the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis FHNW hosted the seminar Kontrapunktwerkstatt XVII. Digitalisierung in Forschung und Lehre (‘Counterpoint Workshop XVII. Digitization in Research and Teaching’), organized by the Music Theory department of the Schola in collaboration with the Institut für Musikforschung of the University Würzburg (Germany). For some years now, these meetings had become an important moment of exchange and discussion of various aspects of music theory and musicology. The main topic of the seminar was the digitisation process applied to music teaching and research. A very topical issue at the moment: due to restrictions caused by the Covid-19 epidemic, the seminar itself had to be held in digital form.For the research project Vicentino21 it was an opportunity to present and discuss some strategies adopted to achieve the main goal of the project: to publish a digital critical edition of Nicola Vicentino’s treatise L’antica…