The Complete Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New Digital Edition
The project team are delighted to announce that the web site of the new edition of Tinctoris's theoretical writings is now open for public use. You are invited to visit http://earlymusictheory.org/tinctoris/ to start exploring the edition and to learn its capabilities.
At the time of opening, the edition comprises two of Tinctoris's twelve treatises: *De notis et pausis* (On notes and rests) and *De imperfectione notarum* (On the imperfection of notes). For each, a critical edition of the Latin text and a careful English translation are available, together with meticulous transcriptions of each individual source. User-selected options allow a text-critical apparatus or different punctuation systems to be displayed as desired. The site will eventually include a good deal of interpretative material, beginning with an article by Ronald Woodley on "Syncopated imperfection and alteration in Tinctoris's theoretical writings". We intend in due course also to provide digital facsimiles of the sources.
We expect to be able to add a finished edition and translation (with source transcriptions) of *De punctis* (On dots) very soon; a draft edition and translation (and transcriptions) of *De inventione et usu musice* (On the invention and use of music) will appear before the end of 2013, although it will then take some time to polish these. (One of the advantages of electronic publication is that it is possible to update texts as needed.) In the new year we intend to address *De arte contrapuncti* (On the art of counterpoint) and other texts.
The site contains a blog where the team will keep users informed of progress on the edition. We intend soon to provide also a user forum, where users can initiate conversations with the project team and with one another; in the short term, we hope users will comment on the blog to let us know their reactions. We want to respond to users' experience to make the edition and the site as useful as it can possibly be. Please follow our Twitter account, @EarlyMusTheory, or subscribe to the RSS feed from the blog, http://earlymusictheory.org/blog/?feed=rss (or rss2, atom, rdf), to stay abreast of future developments.
The edition is funded at present by the Arts & Humanities Research Council UK, and the team is based at Birmingham Conservatoire (Birmingham City University). The project has grown out of the ongoing research of its Principal Investigator, Ronald Woodley, into the life and works of Tinctoris. We hope to secure funding for a follow-on project once the current project is complete.
Ronald Woodley <[log in to unmask]>
Jeffrey J. Dean <[log in to unmask]>
David Lewis <[log in to unmask]>
Birmingham Conservatoire (Birmingham City University)
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