Prof Tim Crawford
Tim has research interests in computational approaches to musicology and music history from the 16th to 18th centuries.
Staff details
Position
Professorial Research Fellow in Computational Musicology
Department
t.crawford (@gold.ac.uk)
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Professor Tim Crawford worked for 15 years as a professional musician before becoming an academic.
Beginning in the 1990s at King’s College, University of London, where he worked in the Music Department and with the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, he has been involved with the use of computers in the service of musicology.
He set up an international project in music information retrieval, Online Music Searching And Retrieval (OMRAS) and established the Electronic Corpus of Lute Music, which has received funding from the AHRC.
He is currently Principal Investigator of the AHRC Digital Transformations project Transforming Musicology, involving over 15 researchers and three PhD students at Goldsmiths, Oxford, Queen Mary, Lancaster and Utrecht universities. His latest project, also funded by the AHRC, is Learn To Play, which uses machine-learning technology and the experience of working with historical music to grade pieces for online learning and to generate exercises to help students with their instrumental practice.
Research Interests
- Computational approaches to musicology
- Music history, especially of the 16th to 18th centuries
- Music for the western lute
- Musical performances on record