Digital Extension of Music Memory Music as a Collective Cultural Memory

• Main Author: Dimitrije Buzarovski
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MI-AN Publishing 2014-11-01
• Series: Kultura (Skopje)
• Subjects: digitization, music, collective cultural memory, music scores, music recordings
• Online Access: http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/83

<p class="IEEEAbtract">Artistic works represent a very important part of collective cultural memory. Every artistic work, by definition, can confirm its existence only through the presence in collective cultural memory. The migration from author’s individual memory to common collective cultural memory forms the cultural heritage. This equally applies to tangible and intangible cultural artifacts. Being part of collective cultural memory, music reflects the spatial (geographic) and temporal (historic) dimensions of this memory. Until the appearance of written signs (scores) music was preserved only through collective cultural memory. Scores have facilitated further distribution of music artifacts. The appearance of different means for audio, and later audio/video recordings have greatly improved the distribution of music. The transition from analog to digital recording and carriers has been a revolutionary step which substantially extended the chances for the survival of music artifacts in collective memory.</p>