ABOUT

Cantus Index is a catalogue of chant texts and melodies for Office and Mass. Multiple online medieval music databases have been connected together through unique "Cantus ID numbers". Chant texts and melodies can be searched on this Cantus Index website, and matches in any of the partner databases will be returned.

RDF

data.open.ac.uk

TYPE

Catalogue

HOMEPAGE

visit the homepage of the project

EXTENT

<100000 items

LICENSE

Open Access

SUBJECT

Metadata

TASKS

purposes or situations wherein to reuse the resource:

music history

,

musicology

,

music information retrieval

SCOPE

items are gathered by

Genre

AUDIENCE

researchers

MUSIC FEATURES

for each item is described:

Descriptive Metadata

,

Lyrics

,

Melody

,

Rhythm

FEATURES AND SERVICES

the resource provides:

Browsing

,

Human Consumption

,

Interoperable format

,

Query Interface

,

Machine readable symbolic notation