Cantus Planus
A principal aim of the study group Cantus Planus is to stimulate research and discussion; on this page we seek to bring together information about the current and recent research projects of our members. Please contact us with details of further research projects to be added.
Repertories
Hana Vlhová-Wörner (Prague) is working on the place of Prague in the transmission of medieval musical repertories:
Henry Parkes (Nottingham) has been analysing the nature of wordless melody with a special focus on responsories:
Wordless Singing in the Medieval Church
Fragmentology
Jennifer Bain (Dalhousie) and Debra Lacoste (Waterloo) are placing chant fragments in the foreground through means of analysis and public engagement (see, also, the Twitter site):
Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT)
Zsuzsa Czagány (Budapest) is investigating Hungarian regions across their confessional divides for fragments:
Notated Manuscript Fragments from Medieval Hungary
Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) & Digital Editions
Ichiro Fujinaga (McGill) and others have been heavily involved in pushing ahead with neume recognition programmes
Andreas Haug (Würzburg) is engaged in a multi-year project to edit monophonic chant, including new software for optical medieval music recognition (OMMR4All) and music-editing (mono:di):
Virtual Acoustics & Immersion
Stefan Morent (Tübingen), as both musicologist and ensemble director, has focused on the relationship on liturgy and liturgical space in reform monasteries:
Karin Lagergren (Linnaeus) has been part of an interdisciplinary team recapturing the sounds of the medieval motherhouse of the Bridgettine order in Vadstena
The Multisensory World of Vadstena Abbey in the Late Middle Ages