News archive – Electronic resources
The Lost Voices Project is now live
The Lost Voices Project is now online: http://digitalduchemin.org/ “Focusing on a neglected but important repertory of polyphonic songs from mid-sixteenth-century France, this unique project puts old books before a diverse audience of modern scholars and musicians in ways that will prompt renewed understanding of these cultural artifacts and their meanings....
20 November 2014
Mozart: New Documents
From the AMS we have received the following announcement: We are pleased to announce the availability of a new online resource, Mozart: New Documents. The site will present recently uncovered references to Mozart and his music from the composer’s lifetime that have yet to appear in the scholarly literature. Many...
18 September 2014
Five chant databases
The new issue of the Journal of the American Musicological Society has reviews of five chant databases: • Cantus Planus Regensburg • Corpus Antiphonalium Officii-Ecclesiae Centralis Europae • CANTUS: A Database for Latin Ecclesiastical Chant • Global Chant Database • The CANTUS Index Link to article: Alison Altstatt, Journal of...
3 June 2014
The MassDataBase (MDB) is online
In June, the MassDataBase was presented at the international RISM Conference, still in the stages of preparation. It has been open to the public since the beginning of October. The database records around 40,000 settings of the Ordinary to range from the closing years of the 14th century up to...
31 October 2012