Over the following ten years the entire contents of the Perugian choirbooks was encoded, and the collection checked against other medieval manuscripts of the same religious order. For this project a specialized computer program (SCRIBE) was written by Brian Parish and John Stinson which enabled the encoding, storing, searching and retrieval of medieval music in its original notation. This project was undertaken by Professor Margaret Manion (Fine Arts, University of Melbourne) and John Stinson (Music, La Trobe University). The first was a study of a fifteen-volume set of medieval choirbooks, written in Perugia in the first decades of the fourteenth century, which contain a complete annual cycle of Gregorian chant. The database is the result of combining two originally independent projects, both begun in 1984. The database delivers both an image of the original source and a score in modern musical notation to facilitate modern performance. It allows the user to search a repertoire of 10,000 works by text, descriptor or melody. Ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2FANDS&rft_id= music database&rft.identifier= Trobe University&rft.description=The La Trobe University Medieval Music Database provides access to most of the music of the middle ages by combining colour images of original manuscripts, transcriptions of these into modern notation and references to all editions, facsimiles, scholarly literature and recordings.
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