Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

title

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

homepage

http://www.diamm.ac.uk/

description

DIAMM is a portal to collections of medieval polyphonic music manuscripts dating ca. 800-1550; it includes information on all the known sources of European polyphonic music, and color images of some of the manuscripts. The database holds information on the entirety of the RISM B/IV Series (Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11-16th centuries), and the Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Requires free registration to view full-size images. Other projects hosted on DIAMM include the Du Fay Opera Omnia (edited by Alejandro Planchart, in progress), Robert Mitchell's Trent Codices editions, an updated version of the Curtis-Wathey Handlist of Fifteenth-Century Liturgical Music, Helen Deeming's Sources of British Song, c.1150-1300, assorted addenda and corrections to published works, and doctoral dissertations in medieval musicology.

creator or project

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music

type

Repository

purpose

Research

audience

researchers

task or research field

music history

musicology

technical features

Provides interfaces for browsing contents

Provides user-friendly interfaces

Shares data in open data formats

Provides user-friendly search interfaces

Offers a Web API

example resource

here

type of collected resources

Score

scope of the collection

Temporal

category of data collected

Symbolic

music data features

Descriptive Metadata

collection size

<100000

data formats

iiif

jpg

data license

Open Access


URI

https://w3id.org/musow/1635268063-587307