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Cantus Index - Prague presentation 2015/01/19
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Cantus Index
From medieval manuscripts...
Graz, Universitätsbibliothek, 29
14th-century antiphoner in two volumes (with A-Gu 30) from the Abbey of Sankt Lambrecht (Steiermark, Austria). Monastic cursus. 382 fols.
...to an online research network
How has this responsory been catalogued?
CANTUS Database
http://cantus.uwaterloo.ca
University of Waterloo, Canada
Project Manager: Debra Lacoste
Project Developer: Jan Koláček
2 main problems:
- not possible to find melody fragments inside the melodies
- long and demanding search process
- Founded in 1980s
- The Catholic University of America (1980-97)
- The University of Western Ontario (1998-2010)
- The University of Waterloo (2010-now)
Global Chant Database
(founded 2009, developed by Jan Koláček)
- www.globalchant.org
- digitized Index of Gregorian Chant + references to the Cantus Database melodies
Cantus ID numbers based on:
Hesbert, Dom René-Jean
Corpus Antiphonalium Officii
(CAO) 6 vols. Rome: Herder, 1963-79
Volpiano font
Encoding of the melody Ecce dies veniunt:
Simplified:
1--g-f-g-c-d-f-g-h-g
Standard melody:
1--g-gfg--c-d--fghg-fg-g--k-kl
How to deal with the chants which are not found in Hesbert's CAO?
- Used in the Cantus Database
SECONDARY FUNCTIONS:
- System for searching in external manuscript databases
- Analysis tools (similarity of sources, liturgical traditions)
- Suggestions of chants in indexing tools of the manuscript databases
PRIMARY FUNCTION:
- System for automatic assigning of Cantus IDs
- Database of all Cantus IDs
12 sources compared by Hesbert in CAO:
Responsory: Ecce dies veniunt dicit dominus et suscitabo David germen justum et regnabit rex et sapiens erit et faciet judicium et justitiam in terra et hoc est nomen quod vocabunt eum dominus justus noster
- Biological parallel
MS Databases represent
Exact description of a
- specific animal (chant)
- found in a specific nature reserve (source)
Cantus Index represents
Catalogue of animal species
- with their Latin names (Cantus IDs)
- and general description (Full text of a chant)
176 indices of sources
436.000+ chants
- Chant record in Cantus Index:
- General information to classify chants in manuscripts
- Chant record in manuscript databases:
- Accurate description of a specific chant in a specific manuscript
They need new Cantus IDs!
http://cantusindex.org
Founded in 2012
- Debra Lacoste (University of Waterloo)
- Jan Koláček (Charles University in Prague)
- Elsa De Luca (Universidad Nova de Lisboa)
An Index of Gregorian Chant by J. R. Bryden & D. G. Hughes (Cambridge, 1969)
Cantus Index
Manuscript Databases
- Each record (chant) is related to a specific source and folio
- No relation to a specific manuscript / source
How are the melodies encoded?
- Numerical coding system
- Melody incipit = the first eight changes of pitch
- The chants are ordered by numerical melodic codes
- Fields:
- Cantus ID (unique key)
- Full text (standardized)
- Genre
- Fields:
- Source
- Folio
- Sequence
- Cantus ID
- Full text (MS version)
- Genre
- Feast
- Liturgical position
- Mode
- Differentia
- Final pitch
- Melody (Volpiano font)