Speaker

Martha Thomae

Martha E. Thomae is a postdoctoral research fellow for the ECHOES project at the NOVA University of Lisbon, where she leads the development of tools to facilitate the search and analysis of chants encoded in the MEI music format. She has a PhD and Master’s in Music Technology from McGill University. During her time at McGill, she worked as a research assistant for the Single Interface for Music Score Searching and Analysis (SIMSSA) project, directed by Ichiro Fujinaga.

Most of her research has focused on the preservation and encoding of early music written sources through music information retrieval technologies. Her PhD dissertation focused on digitizing and encoding Guatemalan polyphonic choirbooks from the colonial period, written in mensural notation, using optical music recognition, automatic voice alignment, and computational error detection. She currently serves as a Co-chair of the Mensural MEI IG and has served as a member of the MEI Board.

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