Work in three areas comprised this study of computer use in thematic indexing for music research: (1) acquisition, encoding, and keypunching of data--themes of which now number about 50,000 (primarily 16th Century Italian vocal music) and serve as a test base for program development; (2) development of computer programs to process this data; and…

This project comprises the second year's work of a 3-year research plan to develop computer programs, necessary data, and procedures for using the computer in a special field of musicology known as thematic indexing, and to explore the use of these techniques in other areas of music. During the second year, the research centered on three areas:…