ABOUT

CANTUS is a database that assembles indices of the Latin ecclesiastical chants found in early manuscript and printed sources for the liturgical Office, such as antiphoners and breviaries. This digital archive benefits scholars in a variety of fields including ecclesiastical monody, the sacred polyphony of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, liturgical drama, hagiography, paleography, philology, ecclesiastical history and the history of monasticism, as well as performers of this early music (including church musicians and directors of liturgy), librarians and archivists.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Repository

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<10000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Metadata

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

,

musicology

SCOPE

items are gathered by

Genre

,

Geographical

,

Temporal

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

,

Lyrics

,

Structure of a song

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

,

Human Consumption

,

Interoperable format

,

Query Interface