This list this is not comprehensive. While we attempt to research existing resources, we rely primarily on the suggestions of study group members. Please contact the co-chairs to suggest additional resources.
Projects
ARC Humanities Press – Charles D. Wright’s Online Medieval Studies Bibliographies.
Cantus is a database for Latin ecclesiastical chant and inventories of chant sources.
The CMME Project (The Computerized Mensural Music Editing) by Ted Dumitrescu is an online resource of electronic editions of musical scores.
CRIM (Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass) extends and enhances a topological approach to analysis and digital editions undertaken in The Lost Voices Project (digitalduchemin.org). CRIM is open to scholars and students at all levels, offering opportunities for online learning, in-person events, classroom visits that will advance teaching and research along our twin axes: counterpoint and code. To learn more about recent work by CRIM participants, see the archive of videos and other materials prepared for the CRIM Summer School, or the Med-Ren Lisbon conference.
DIAMM (Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music) offers images and metadata for thousands of manuscripts.
Introducing the Gaspar Online Edition – The Gaspar Online Edition is a complete set of digital scores of the compositions of Gaspar van Weerbeke, provided as a companion resource to the printed edition (Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 106). These scores can be viewed using the Verovio Humdrum Viewer, which can display Humdrum and MEI data. See the website for more information.
The International Machaut Society
The Josquin Research Project, directed by Jesse Rodin, allows users to search, browse, and analyze scores of Renaissance polyphony, ca. 1420-1520.
Liturgical Books, developed at Columbia University under the supervision of Susan Boynton. Containing a variety of resources and introductory areas, as well as a numerous manuscript and fragment examples from throughout the period.
The Lost Voices Project, directed by Richard Freedman and Philippe Vendrix, in which scholars and musicians can reconstruct the missing voices of hundreds of chansons à 4 printed by Nicolas Du Chemin (1549-1568) using a 150-page Thesaurus of contrapuntal devices and a Dossier that explains the project’s methods for style analysis and reconstruction.
Marenzio Online Digital Edition, co-directed by Mauro Calcagno, Giuseppe Gerbino, and Laurent Pugin, which integrates music philology and digital technology in ways that allow scholars and performers to rethink the editing process.
“Measuring Polyphony: Digital Editions of Late Medieval Music”, directed by Karen Desmond, with late medieval polyphonic compositions encoded in mensural and modern notation, and downloadable MEI, XML, PDF, and MIDI files.
The Motet Database Catalogue Online
Musicologie Médiévale: Resources for medieval musicology and liturgy
Online course on fourteenth-century notation led by Elizabeth Eva Leach and hosted by DIAMM.
Online courses on Machaut and vernacular song led by Elizabeth Eva Leach.
Online course on the History of the Book, taught by various Harvard faculty, and available through EdX.
Online course on Liturgical Manuscripts, taught by Thomas Kelly, available through EdX.
“Singing on the Book” video series on improvising Renaissance polyphony, directed by Peter Schubert and Julie Cumming.
The Tasso in Music Project is a digital critical edition of the early modern musical settings of the poetry of Torquato Tasso (1544-1595). The editions are available in a variety of formats, such as Humdrum, MEI, and Verovio, and are accompanied by tools for the analysis of both music and text underlay. The project also features a substantial literary component, with diplomatic TEI transcriptions of the poetic texts as they appear in musical and literary sources, with dynamic collation of variant readings. Directed by Emiliano Ricciardi (UMass Amherst) and Craig Sapp (PHI, Stanford University), the project has been funded by a 3-year Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (2016-19). In 2021, it received Honorable Mention for the Digital Innovation Award of the Renaissance Society of America.
The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum (TML) is an online archive of music theory in Latin. TML provides access to known Latin texts on music from late antiquity to seventeenth century.