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2 Ground-truth set for St Gall notation, showing virga strata and porrectus neumes, developed by Inga Behrendt, Kate
Helsen and Anton Stingl
Kate Helsen is a part-time Assistant Professor in the Department of Music Research and Composition
at Western University, Ontario. Her publications may be found in numerous journals, and she also
sings professionally with the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir in Toronto. katehelsen@gmail.com
Jennifer Bain is Associate Professor at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia. In addition to her work
developing digital tools for the study of medieval chant, she has co-edited a collection of essays on
Guillaume de Machaut, and in 2015 her book, Hildegard of Bingen and musical reception: the modern revival of a medieval composer, will be published.
Ichiro Fujinaga is an Associate Professor and the Chair of the Music Technology Area at the Schulich
School of Music at McGill University. His research interests include music theory, machine learning,
music perception, signal processing, genetic algorithms and music information retrieval.
Andrew Hankinson is a PhD candidate at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. He has
been involved with the Music Encoding Initiative since 2011.
Debra Lacoste is Project Manager and Principal Researcher of CANTUS: A Database for Latin
Ecclesiastical Chant. She has numerous publications and teaches at the University of Waterloo, Ontario.
1 For his results, relevant and
impressive still today, see W.H.
Frere, Introduction to Antiphonale
Sarisburiense: a reproduction in
facsimile of a manuscript of the
thirteenth century (London, 190124).
2 A. Hughes, Rebellion and serendipity,
in The Becket Project: paradigms for
liturgical research, ii, ed. K.Helsen
(Lions Bay, Canada, 2014), p.7 (in press).
3 I. Fujinaga, Single interface for music
score searching and analysis, McGill
University, http://simssa.ca/.
4 F. Wiering, Digital critical editions
of music: a multidimensional model,
in Modern methods for musicology: