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- Title
The Renaissance chanson goes digital: digitalduchemin.org.
- Authors
Freedman, Richard
- Abstract
The 16 volumes of four-voice Chansons nouvelles published in Paris by Nicolas Du Chemin between 1549 and 1568 contain some 380 chansons by composers like Clément Janequin, Claude Goudimel and Etienne Du Tertre, and two dozen of their contemporaries. Yet the full richness of the Du Chemin series remains largely unexplored by musicologists on two counts: large portions of it have never appeared in modern notation or score, and the final five books of the series survive in an incomplete state (with two of four original voice-parts missing).The Lost Voices Project explores the missing voices through the stylistic profile of the corpus as a whole. A thesaurus of musical devices provides a common vocabulary for a searchable database of thousands of analytical observations about the complete pieces. These in turn provide the foundation for dozens of reconstructions of the missing parts. All of this material is presented in a dynamic interface (using the Music Encoding Initiative standard and other open-source tools) that permits users to sort and display the results of their searches, from individual analytical observations to entire pieces (including dynamic presentation of variant readings, emendations and alternative reconstructions). User accounts provide space for private notes and public discussions about individual works. Downloadable facsimiles, engraved modern editions of the complete chansons and mp3 recordings of the set round out the project.
- Subjects
CHANSONS (Renaissance music); DU Chemin, Nicolas; ENCODING; MUSICOLOGY; DATABASES; DIGITAL humanities; COMPUTER software
- Publication
Early Music, 2014, Vol 42, Issue 4, p567
- ISSN
0306-1078
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/em/cau108