Bringing Back To Life Ancient Music Scores: The Case Of Music In The 1799 Neapolitan Revolution

This paper describes an ongoing project, which, based on ancient archive material and scores, abounding in the music library of the Conservatorio di Musica di Napoli1, San Pietro a Majella, tries to bring to new life some interesting handwritten and printed musical material. The project aims at enhancing fruition of ancient scores, multiplying modalities and means to enjoy ancient music but, at the same time, it promotes some interesting musicological and even historical research. All these goals are performed by means of the use of multimedia tools, including web technology, mobiles, tablets, smart tags and similar. The project may offer tools and materials to be used in different directions, ranging from smart guides for music museums, to musical education and more general interactive music listening.