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Helmuth Schaffrath and colleagues at the Hochschule für Musik in Essen, Germany started putting together the Essen Collection in 1982 while working on a new method for quickly and accurately encoding printed music into a computer-friendly format named the Essen Associative Code or “EsAC” (Schaffrath, 1995).

It was divided into twenty-five different subsections, each supposedly named after the archivist who first collected the printed manuscripts. Under Schaffrath’s successor Ewa DahligTurek’s leadership, and through the work of music scholar David Huron, the folksongs within the Essen Collection were eventually transcribed from their original EsAC format to the **kern format (Huron, 1995).

for additional information. The collection has been transcribed from Kern to MEI for insertion in Neuma.

Africa Airs from Africa
America Airs from America
Asia Airs from Asia
Europe Airs from Europe

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