University of Mainz with chair for digital music editing
As part of a cooperation between the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz and Johannes Gutenberg University (JGU), an academy junior professorship for digital music editing will be established at Mainz University.
Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch studied musicology at Philipps-Universität Marburg and most recently worked as a senior academic advisor at the Musicology Department of Paderborn University and the Detmold University of Music, where she also completed her habilitation in February 2016. Her area of expertise, digital music editing, will have a permanent place in future teaching at JGU, the university writes, as part of a Master's degree course in "Digital Methodology in the Humanities and Cultural Studies", which starts in the 2016/17 winter semester.
One focus of Stefanie Acquavella-Rauch's work will be on the Gluck Complete Edition. The academy took on the long-term musicological project in 1979, whose task is to research and edit all the works of the composer Christoph Willibald Gluck (1714-1787).
Digitization opens up new possibilities for the edition of musical works, for example, extensive additional information can be made available beyond the printed music volumes via homepages, USB sticks or other storage media.
