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====Medieval Legends with Music====
 
====Medieval Legends with Music====
  
[[File: CarmineBurana-f94.png|400px|thumb|left|<small>This florid notation (note particularly the neumes above the A-e-u-i-a (shorthand for "Alleluia"), comes at the end of a short Office (f. 94) in Bavarian State Library MS 00035316, [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0008/bsb00085130/images/index.html?id=00085130&groesser=&fip=eayaxseayafsdrxsxdsydxdsydyztsxsfsdr&no=1&seite=191 Hss Cgm 34].</small>]]
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[[File:CarmineBurana-f94.png|400px|thumb|left|<small>This florid notation (note particularly the neumes above the A-e-u-i-a (shorthand for "Alleluia"), comes at the end of a short Office (f. 94) in Bavarian State Library MS 00035316, [http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0008/bsb00085130/images/index.html?id=00085130&groesser=&fip=eayaxseayafsdrxsxdsydxdsydyztsxsfsdr&no=1&seite=191 Hss Cgm 34].</small>]]
  
 
=====The Carmina Burana=====
 
=====The Carmina Burana=====

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Digital Scriptorium

Website:Digital Scriptorium

Image database of medieval and renaissance manuscripts. Based at the University of California, Berkeley, it includes holdings from many US libraries, with extensive folio-specific information about each source.

Index of Christian Art

Website: Index of Christian Art

One hundred twenty thousand (120,000) images from public and private collections in the English-speaking world plus additional indices; roughly 100,000 are available to the public via fee-based institutional subscriptions. Holdings from early centuries of Christianity to 1550.

Medieval Legends with Music

This florid notation (note particularly the neumes above the A-e-u-i-a (shorthand for "Alleluia"), comes at the end of a short Office (f. 94) in Bavarian State Library MS 00035316, Hss Cgm 34.
The Carmina Burana

Website: The Carmina Burana

The 11th- to 12th-century collection of poetry and dramatic texts is rich in illustration and many of its texts contain cheironomic notation. Although found in a Benedictine abbey in Bavaria in 1803 and housed today in the Bavarian State Library, its origins point to compilation along the southern fringe of Austria, particularly Carinthia. Its Goliard sources come from Spain, the British Isles, France, and elsewhere in Europe. The texts are predominantly in medieval Latin, with some examples of Middle High German and Provençal. Musical settings of individual pieces are numerous following Carl Orff's 1936 presentation of 24 of the pieces (roughly one-tenth of the collection).


Songs of the Niebelungen
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Opening stanzas of the song "Wie Gvnther Sifriden zvo der hohzit bat" from Das Niebelungenlied, Bavarian State Library 00035316, Hss Cgm 34.

Website: Das Niebelungenlied

These poetic texts, considered to date from before 1280, display settings of the legends that inspired Richard Wagner. As is characteristic of those resources preserved for posterity in this period, the script is very carefully prepared, the vellum on which it is preserved obviously sturdy. Each Lied is illuminated by a carmine letter. The texts mention Sifriden (Siegfried), Prvnhilde (Brunhilde), Gvnther (Gunther), and others. The illustration shows the first three stanzas of "Wie Gvnther Sifriden zvo der hohzit bat" (No. 12 of 39). Later portions of the source contain religious songs (Klage).

Folk bagpipe from the Polish Folk Instrument Museum, Szydłowiec-Radzivill Castle. Photograph by Waldemar Kielchowski. Further description in Polish here

Polish Folk Instruments

Website: Polish Folk Instruments

The Museum of Folk Instruments in Szydłowiec, established in 1968, houses the largest collection of folk instruments in Poland and documents rich musical relationships with adjacent regions. Holdings date from the seventeenth century onward and currently number more than 2,000. The collection (which is housed in the Szydłowieccy-Radziwill Castle, is particularly rich in bowed instruments, cymbals, and bagpipes.

Watermark Databases

Watermark examination provides a fundamental (analogue) method of sorting and ordering materials that are undated or lack a provenance. They are especially useful for clustering manuscripts by paper type. The combination of digital photography and tools for photographic editing can be combined with extensive existing research on paper-makers to shed new light on musical sources. The sites listed here include watermarks associated specifically with music manuscripts.

WZIS: Watermark Information System

Website: Wasserzeichen Informationssystem Deutschland

The WZIS is a project of extensive scope. Its goal is to compile a graphical database of watermarks used throughout Europe. The project is based at the Landesarchiv of Baden-Württemberg. A graphical watermark lexicon called Piccard is under development at the Stuttgart Hauptstaatsarchiv. Related lexicons of makers and mills have also been developed. A textual search form is also available. Although we are aware of many other digital collections of watermarks, this one stands out for its tight coupling with music manuscripts, particularly in the large collections of the Berlin and Dresden state libraries, which are in turn linked to the RISM OPAC.