The situation that arose from the restrictions on movement and gatherings imposed to address the pandemic rapidly brought the use of digital media to the fore. The unexpected and abrupt transfer of almost all research and teaching activities to the digital domain brought out every kind of remote activity via the Internet. This paper attempts to summarise proposals and research data from existing studies, and to add new ones, through the prism of the digital condition we are experiencing. It is an opportunity for reflection, as well as an occasion to re-examine and re-evaluate issues that the author has raised in recent years and that relate to a broader perspective stemming from the digital humanities: issues such as digital preservation, the use of open-source software, the treatment of the digital score as a historical document, the protection of copyright, the use of blockchain technology, etc. The focus is mainly on the use of digital documents in music teaching and musicological research. Among other things, it is concluded that possessing basic technological skills constitutes a form of digital literacy, without which it is very difficult to meet the challenges of our time.
Presentation. The paper was presented at the 12th Interdepartmental Musicological Conference, under the auspices of the Hellenic Musicological Society (Thessaloniki, 27–29 November 2020), in session 4c on Saturday 28 November. The full text was published in the conference proceedings (2022).