Diplomatic Transcriptions Between Document and Text: Encoding Beethoven’s Sketchbooks

Johannes Kepper

doi:10.5334/tismir.318

Diplomatic Transcriptions Between Document and Text: Encoding Beethoven’s Sketchbooks

Transactions of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval

Volume 9 (2026): Issue 1

By: Johannes Kepper

Open Access

|Jul 2026

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