Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina – Zur Konzeption eines digitalen Verzeichnisses seiner Werke und deren Quellen

Abstract

The projected digital catalog of the works of Palestrina has the goal to gather all known sources for every extant work by Palestrina, cataloging and describe them, and settling numerous remaining questions of authenticity. A new point of departure is creating a digital score (based on LilyPond) for all the sources (before ca. 1650) of each individual work that diplomatically reproduces the mensural notation of the source and arranges the parts, score-like, underneath each other. The different sources of work can be automatically compared and the textual and musical deviations are displayed accordingly. In addition, there are various, especially musical search functions (e.g. polyphonic full-text search) that can be combined without restrictions.