Chant editing and analysis program: a tool for analyzing liturgical chant

Emma C Hornby; Rebecca Maloy; Paul A Rouse

doi:10.1080/17546559.2021.2023752

Chant editing and analysis program: a tool for analyzing liturgical chant

Emma C Hornby
, Rebecca Maloy^*
, Paul A Rouse

^*Corresponding author for this work

Department of Music

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Abstract

Until recently, Old Hispanic chant was rarely subjected to close musical analysis, in part because it is preserved in unpitched notation. Although we can read the contours of the melodies—the up and down movements—they cannot be reliably transcribed into modern notation. This paper introduces the Chant Editing and Analysis Program and shows how it facilitates analysis of the repertory.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	82-95
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Medieval Iberian Studies
Volume	14
Issue number	1
Early online date	22 Feb 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/17546559.2021.2023752
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 22 Feb 2022

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All of our approximate-matching algorithms depend on putting a numerical value, or “score,” reflecting the degree of agreement or disagreement between two notes. We are now revising the way this is done, using a fundamentally different approach with a new theoretical basis. This is motivated by algorithms we have recently implemented in separate programs to identify patterns automatically that occur several times, either within the same chant or across several chants. We are also examining ways of codifying radically different styles of unpitched neumes as part of a pilot project funded by a Leverhulme/British Academy Small Grant (2020–2022). This collaboration with Ekaterine Oniani and Tamar Chkheidze (Vano Sarajisvili Tbilisi State Conservatoire) explores whether there are any parallels in how chants were built between two widely different liturgical traditions, in this case the Georgian and the Old Hispanic.

Funding Information:
This work was supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council: [grant number AH/P002757/1,AH/S006060/1]; Seventh Framework Programme: [grant number 313133].

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© 2022 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.

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