The Polyphony Database
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About the database❯
PolyphonyDatabase.com is a detailed catalogue of early music sources designed to help musicians perform, academics study, and enthusiasts explore a vast and glorious repertoire quickly and easily. It aims to combine the practicality of CPDL with the academic rigour and ambition of the RISM census, to make use of similar projects where possible, and to directly combat the frustrations performing musicians have with all existing resources.
Its three main goals are:
- To assist performers, directors, and editors by cataloguing the contents of primary sources, source concordances, and basic information about how each piece of music can be performed.
- To provide a reliable starting point for academic research by linking to library catalogues, other existing databases, and facsimile images of early music manuscripts and prints.
- To provide a repository for properly sourced critical editions, performing scores, and recordings of as much of this music as possible, each carefully vetted for typesetting quality and accuracy, and made available for free download, so that this music might be discovered and appreciated by a wider audience.
The database was founded by Francis Bevan in 2014 as an outlet for his editing hobby and is regularly updated by him and a small team of enthusiasts. If you would like to contribute some cataloguing time, recordings or editions, submit corrections, commission an edition or just donate some cash, please get in touch with Francis via email: polyphonydatabase@gmail.com.
The best way to help fund the project is to commission performing editions. New editions can be made quickly for as little as £10.
Read more about the project's history at the 2018 Crowdfunder page.
Title |
Function(s) |
Composer |
# |
Sources |
Acceptabis sacrificium iustitiae
|
Ordinary Time 16 (post Pentecost IX) |
Senfl, Ludwig
c.1486–1542/1543
|
4 |
|
Acceptabis sacrificium iustitiae
|
Ordinary Time 16 (post Pentecost IX) |
Isaac, Heinrich
c.1450–1517
|
4 |
|
Acceptable is nothing more
|
|
Whythorne, Thomas
1528–1596
|
2 |
|
Accesserunt ad Jesum - Non legistis quia - Propter hoc dimit
|
|
Clemens non Papa, Jacobus
c.1510–1555/1556
|
5 |
(D-Dl Mus.1-D-3)
Dresden, 1550-1560
(Partbook, MS)
RISM
#30
|
|
Attrib: Anon |
|
Liber octavus cantionum sacrarum vulg... (RISM 1555/5)
Leuven: Phalèse the Elder, Pierre, 1555
(Partbook, Print)
#1
|
|
Attrib: Clemens non papa |
|
Secunda pars magni operis musici cont... (RISM 1559/1)
Nuremberg: Berg, Johann and Neuber, Ulrich, 1559
(Partbook, Print)
RISM
#60
|
|
Attrib: Ia. Clemens non Papa |
|
Choirbook B (NL-Lml 1439)
Leiden: Blauwe, Anthonius de, 1559
(Choirbook, MS)
#11
|
|
Attrib: Clemens non papa |
|
|
Accessit ad eum mater filiorum - Nescitis quid petatis
|
|
Reiner, Jacob
before 1560–1606
|
8 |
|
Accessit ad Jesum centurio
|
|
Dulichius, Philipp
1562–1631
|
5 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu
|
Mary Magdalene |
Resinarius, Balthasar
c.1485–1544
|
4 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu
|
Mary Magdalene |
Paminger, Leonhard
1495–1567
|
4 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu - Dimissa sunt ei peccata multa
|
Mary Magdalene |
Wanning, Johannes
1537–1603
|
6 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu - Dimissa sunt ei peccata multa
|
Mary Magdalene |
Tonsor, Michael
before 1546–after 1606
|
4 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu - Dimissa sunt ei peccata multa
|
Mary Magdalene |
Deiss, Michael
fl.1564–1568
|
5 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu - Dimissa sunt ei peccata multa
|
Mary Magdalene |
Anon
|
5 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu - Dimissa sunt ei peccata multa
|
Mary Magdalene |
Anon
|
4 |
|
Accessit ad pedes Jesu - Et osculata est - Dimissa sunt ei peccata multa
|
Mary Magdalene |
Isaac, Heinrich
c.1450–1517
|
4 |
|
Accessit Jesus ad loculum
|
Ordinary Time 23 (post Pentecost XVII) |
Paminger, Leonhard
1495–1567
|
4 |
|
Accingimini et estote
|
|
Zacchino, Giulio
fl.1572–1584
|
4 |
|
Accipe quae - Dum mihi natus erat
|
|
Maistre Jhan
c.1485–1538
|
5 |
(I-TVd 36)
Treviso, c.1530
(Partbook, MS)
#13
|
|
Attrib: M Jan |
|
|
Accipe qua recrees - Quo fers cumque
Pothárn Imre
|
|
Lassus, Orlande de
c.1532–1594
|
6 |
|
Accipiens Simeon
|
Candlemas |
Catalani, Ottavio
d.1644
|
3 |
|
Accipiens Simeon
|
Candlemas |
Anon
|
4 |
(I-TVd 14)
Treviso, c.1560-1626
(Choirbook, MS)
#23
|
|
Attrib: Anon |
|
|
Accipient iusti regnum decoris
|
|
Handl, Jacob
1550–1591
|
4 |
|
Accipite ergo animis - Quod cadit in spinas
|
|
Kessler, Wendelin
fl.1572–1580
|
5 |
|
Accipite et concedite
|
|
Molinaro, Simone
c.1570–after 1633
|
5 |
|
Accipite iucunditatem
|
|
Chamaterò, Ippolito
c.1535–after 1592
|
4 |
|
Accipite iucunditatem
|
|
Erbach, Christian
c.1568–1635
|
5 |
(D-As Tonk.Sch. 22)
Dreer, Johannes, 1614
(Choirbook, MS)
#50
|
|
Attrib: Erbachii |
introit; pentecost tuesday |
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