The field of digital humanities, a convergence of humanities and computer sciences, has recently become a growing focus of interest. The aim of this paper is to present basic concepts of digital humanities as they relate to music and musicology, as well as the term digital musicology, in order to encourage in Croatia a greater use of the new possibilities of research provided by this field. Based on A Companion to Digital Humanities (chapter Music by I. Fujinaga and S. Forscher Weiss), this overview includes the following subjects: notation software and optical music recognition (OMR); MIDI and MP3 as technical standards; databases; computer applications for music scholars; and music information retrieval (MIR) systems. For each subject, some basic sources and materials are offered and some (more or less) current activities and projects are presented, with special consideration of Croatian perspectives.
Cilj je ovoga članka predstaviti osnovne pojmove digitalne humanistike u vezi s glazbom i muzikologijom, kao i pojam digitalne muzikologije, kako bi se potaknulo korištenje novih istraživačkih mogućnosti koje ovo područje nudi. U pregled su uključena sljedeća područja: programi za pisanje nota, uključujući optičko prepoznavanje glazbenih zapisa; tehnički standardi MIDI i MP3; baze podataka; računalne aplikacije za istraživanje glazbe; te sustavi za pristupanje podacima o glazbi. Za svako područje ponuđeni su osnovni izvori i materijali te su predstavljene neke od aktualnih aktivnosti i projekata.