Is There a Searchable Chant Database?
  • FKulash
    Posts: 81
    I'd like to find a database that can be used to answer questions like these:

    What antiphons are used with psalm tone 4d?
    Is that tone only found in old publications? (or What is the publication date of each?)
    In those publications, what percentage of mode 4 antiphons use tone 4d?

    Does GregoBase have any search features that can help with questions like these? Are there other resources that might help?
  • a_f_hawkins
    Posts: 3,454
    The antiphonale synopticum http://gregorianik.uni-regensburg.de/an/ will search by mode number but not by more precise detail.
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  • igneusigneus
    Posts: 380
    Does GregoBase have any search features that can help with questions like these?

    No.

    And the other chant databases available are concerned with medieval sources, not with modern editions. (There is one dealing specifically with differentiae / psalm tone endings: https://differentiaedatabase.ca/ )

    I have the GregoBase db dump and some other publicly available datasets imported in a private chant database (source code https://github.com/igneus/adiutor/ ). It can provide some answers, but is very much limited by the data available. Reliable answers would require much more extensive and systematically prepared data.
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  • MatthewRoth
    Posts: 2,259
    Right. Adding the differentia to GB is very much welcome, FKulash.

    Tbh I want a search function but the code behind GB needs work. And Olivier is…unreachable.
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  • ServiamScores
    Posts: 2,872
    https://cantusindex.org
    (This really deals with manuscripts, but you might find answers that way.)
  • francis
    Posts: 10,799
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  • tomjaw
    Posts: 2,768
    Would this work,
    http://www.globalchant.org/search.php
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