Starting today, May 1, 2024, all cantus.uwaterloo.ca traffic is being redirected to cantusdatabase.org. All of your cantus.uwaterloo.ca addresses and bookmarks should take you seamlessly to the new domain name. No action is required on your part and you will probably not even notice anything new (unless you look in your address bar!).

If you want to update your bookmarks, use cantusdatabase.org at the start of all of your CantusDB https:// addresses.

Thank you to the University of Waterloo for hosting the Cantus Database since 2011, and for setting up these permanent redirects. For anyone interested where the data is served, UW will now host our Cantus Index catalogue, and the Cantus Database is hosted by the Digital Research Alliance of Canada, funded through the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission project based at Dalhousie University (SSHRC 895-2023-1002).

Book collector Nick Alexander found fragments of medieval chant manuscripts in 18th-century book bindings, and sought to find out more by reaching out to the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission project and the Cantus Database. His story was picked up by NBC in Connecticut.

Click here to watch!

Click here for the description of DACT included on the website of the Eberhard Karls Universität in Tübingen.

Click here for an announcement about our DACT partnership grant from the University of Missouri-Kansas City!

Click here for an article from Conrad Grebel University College about our DACT partnership grant!

The next Music Encoding Conference will be held 20-23 May 2024 at the University of North Texas in Denton. Click here for the Call for Proposals (deadline 15 Jan 2024).

The new Cantus Database has launched!

Welcome to https://cantusdatabase.org for a familiar look with updated software underneath. This version of the Cantus Database employs Django with PostgreSQL (migrated from Drupal with MySQL) and became available for login access for contributors on July 24, 2023, at Workshop 15 of the Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission, the project that now oversees the Cantus Database, funded by the Canadian government’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The Drupal site at the University of Waterloo (https://cantus.uwaterloo.ca) will remain online for a few months for reference only; no new data will be added there. Within a few months, all links to pages and chant records on the uWaterloo site will be redirected permanently to cantusdatabase.org.

Contributors please note: Your username is now your email address, and you will need to reset your password at first login to the new site. If you forget which email address you signed up with, or if the password reset email does not arrive (please check your spam folder), please contact us (debra.lacoste@dal.ca or cantusdatabase@gmail.com)!

Visit https://youtu.be/qCTZXbSfBgk?t=5851 to watch Michael Portillo's interview with Dr. Jennifer Bain about the amazing journey of the Riesencodex in post-World-War-II Europe.

Check out this multi-page web exhibit by Gareth Cordery, a student of Susan Boynton at Columbia University: http://liturgicalmanuscripts.sandbox.library.columbia.edu/barnardbarlines/. Close-up photos and explanations of the varied scribal uses of vertical lines in the manuscript New York, Columbia University - Barnard College Library, MS 1 are accompanied by an extensive bibliography and comparative statistical analysis. The glossary of terms and links to other web resources are certain to be helpful for students, too!

Barnard MS1 is indexed in the Cantus Database: https://cantusdatabase.org/source/683940.