Exploring an unknown musical world

the case of the Greek Songs Collection at the Digital Greek Music Archive (DIGMA)

Abstract

Digitisation has been the major innovation that occurred in the turn of the 21st century, widening the scope of research in various fields. The availability of material reshapes the way we see and research and this becomes quite obvious in the case of musicology. A strong example of this is the fact that musical microhistory deriving from the periphery seems to be gaining interest, especially when one places this in a parallel route towards the major music centres that were active during each era. Therefore, we are going to examine a collection of Greek songs currently accessible for those researchers who are interested on the activities of local song composers from the European periphery, available at The Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri.”