The purpose of CANTUS is to assemble and publish indices of the
chants found in manuscript and early printed sources for the
liturgical Office. Each record in the database represents one
chant from a particular source. Details of the data formatting
are listed in various places on this website. Includes almost
five hundred streamable recordings of instrumental, sacred and
choral music from the medieval period. Maintained by Peter
Jeffrey; contains links to a wide variety of chant-related
websites. Enhanced online version of the 29-volume print edition
of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition,
also comprising the complete New Grove Dictionary of Opera.
Contains scholarly articles on all aspects of music and includes
links to images, digital sound, and related sites. Updated
quarterly. Basic introduction to Gregorian chant including links
to chant resources and a page of chant texts with English
translation and music notation Photographs and simple
descriptions of Medieval and Renaissance