The Polyphony Database
polyphonydatabase@gmail.com
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 |
Accipite iucunditatem gloriae vestrae
|
|
Lambardi, Girolamo
fl.1586–1623
|
4 |
|
Accipite iucunditatem gloriae vestrae
|
|
Amon, Blasius
c.1560–1590
|
4 |
|
Accipite iucunditatem gloriae vestrae
|
|
Senfl, Ludwig
c.1486–1542/1543
|
4 |
|
Accipite iucunditatem gloriae vestrae
|
|
Porta, Costanzo
c.1528–1601
|
5 |
|
Accipite iucunditatem gloriae vestrae
|
|
Asola, Giovanni Matteo
c.1532–1609
|
4 |
|
Accipite scutum fidei
|
|
Paminger, Leonhard
1495–1567
|
4 |
|
Accipite spiritum sanctum
|
|
Conte, Bartholomeus le
fl.1547–1565
|
5 |
|
Accompany the good
|
|
Whythorne, Thomas
1528–1596
|
2 |
|
Accordez moy que vostre soye
|
|
Baston, Josquin
fl.1542–1563
|
5 |
|
Accumbit Christus cum discipulis duodenis - Et pane accepto post multa precamina frangit
|
|
Kessler, Wendelin
fl.1572–1580
|
5 |
|
A ce bon ami
|
|
Clemens non Papa, Jacobus
c.1510–1555/1556
|
3 |
|
A ce joly moys de may
|
|
Janequin, Clément
c.1485–after 1558
|
4 |
|
A certain man who was named
|
|
Tye, Christopher
c.1505–1573
|
4 |
|
A che cercar
|
|
Anon
|
5 |
|
A che con nuovo laccio donna legarmi
|
|
Anon
|
5 |
|
A che tormi'l ben mio
|
(Secular) |
Marenzio, Luca
1553/1554–1599
|
5 |
|
Ach Gott wem soll ichs klagen
|
|
Steurlein, Johann
1546–1613
|
4 |
|
Ach Gott wie lang vergissest
|
|
Ducis, Benedictus
c.1492–1544
|
3 |
|
Ach gütter gsell von wannen her
|
|
Anon
|
4 |
|
Ach Herr straf mich nicht in Deinem Zorn - Wende dich Herr und errette meine Seele - Weichet von mir alle Übeltäter
|
|
Rab, Valentin
|
5 |
|
Ach lib mit laid wie hast dein bschaid
|
|
Anon
|
4 |
|
Ach medlin rain ich hab allain
|
|
Senfl, Ludwig
c.1486–1542/1543
|
5 |
|
Ach Vater unser der du bist
|
|
Nucius, Johannes
c.1556–1620
|
5 |
|
Acordes moy ce que ye pense
|
|
Anon
|
4 |
|
Acquiesce Domine - Desolentur pro intercede
|
|
Berchem, Jacquet de
c.1505–1567
|
5 |
|