The Cantus database is a well-established project devoted to the creation and distribution of electronic indices of manuscript and early printed sources of Latin chant for the liturgical Office. As of January 2011, there were over 379,000 records in the database, each of which is an individual chant in one of the 134 manuscripts which have been indexed to date. For over a decade, this research tool has been growing and adapting to the needs of chant scholars, musicologists, hagiographers, art historians and researchers in other fields. In addition to the basic search functions and downloading options, there are now several analytical tools available on the website, including a textual concordance and an interactive dendrogram-creation tool. The latter, an example of data-mining, allows the user to select a series of chants which will form the basis of a comparison among the numerous manuscripts whose contents are recorded in Cantus. Similarities in chant series can be interpreted as affinities among manuscripts, and so, the dendrograms which are created (through the calculations of similarity matrices) can assist researchers in identifying related chant repertories, in studying the origins and dissemination of saints' feasts, in providing evidence for the provenance of manuscript sources and, undoubtedly, for numerous other research applications.
Cantus Gregorian Chants Vst Download
2 The most popular features on the website continue to be the search and download functions, and it is mainly for these aspects of Cantus that the website has received an average of approximately 15,000 visits per month over the last few years from users all around the world. In addition to these basic functions, Cantus has begun to offer several online, interactive analytical tools which utilize the data in a variety of ways. The current offerings include a textual concordance, programmes which compare series of chants in order to identify regional or widespread traditions, and a dendrogram-creation programme which provides a visual display of the degree of similarity or difference among medieval sources of chant. More analysis programmes are being proposed. These applications of the data housed in Cantus demonstrate the research potential of this relatively large mass of information and illustrate the flexibility and usefulness of indices of chant manuscripts in a digital medium.
[2]. After years of support from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and The University of Western Ontario, the Cantus database ( cantus) was fortunate to receive funding from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for the period from March 2011 to February 2012 to redesign the website and database using MySQL in a Drupal framework. This has been carried out in collaboration with the MARGOT project at the University of Waterloo. Cantus can now be accessed at: with a direct link to the data at: The analytical tools available on the UWO website will remain online indefinitely; the first priority in the 2011 year of transition has been the transference of the browsing, searching and downloading functions.
The beauty of the chants has a new home. We hope you will enjoy the new layout, which gives more space to the scores and texts while improving usability on mobile devices. Playback controls are located underneath the score. The red ribbon divides the score from the texts and allows you to see additional info, download, share, save to favourites, and toggle full-screen mode for the score. Swipe right from the left side of the screen to open the calendar drawer and change the liturgical day, office, and chant.
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