From the Archive to a Global Online Network

Does your library have hidden treasures? We invite graduate and upper-year undergraduate students currently studying at North American universities to apply for four short-term positions to help describe and inventory fragments of chant manuscripts in North America--whether in public libraries, private collections, or in university collections. These manuscripts  can give valuable insights about historical musical practices--but only if their data is accessible. We need your help!

You will

*contribute to one of the longest-running digital musicology projects

create online publications in a database used by tens of thousands of people each year in a variety of fields

*become part of a network of chant scholars across the globe

*help bring to light chant sources in North America

*contribute to the understanding of historical music and music books

… and perhaps discover some hidden gems!

Previous experience with chant not required! You will be mentored by members of the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) team. An honorarium of $500 will be given to each participant. This opportunity, “From the Archive to a Global Online Network: Teaching Students How to Inventory their Institutions’ Chant Manuscript Fragments on the Cantus Database” is funded by the AMS Early Music Program Fund with matching funds provided by the DACT project.

If interested, before December 1, 2024, send information about your academic year, your affiliation, the name of a Faculty supervisor or a referee who can support your application, and a brief description of interest (maximum 200 words) to  dact.fragments@gmail.com, copied to Debra Lacoste (debra.lacoste@dal.ca) and Anna de Bakker (anna.debakker@mcgill.ca).