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The Complete Theoretical Works of Johannes Tinctoris: A New Digital Edition. Selected texts 1.

Woodley_01–03 are interlinked constituent parts of an ongoing AHRC-funded project (2011–14) to complete a new online edition of the theoretical works of Johannes Tinctoris, acknowledged as the pre-eminent writer on notation and music theory of the fifteenth century. The project team consists of Woodley (PI); Dean (Senior Researcher, q.v.) and David Lewis (Researcher). The life, works and intellectual context of Tinctoris have formed a central focus for Woodley’s research for over thirty years; the current project is gradually replacing an earlier version hosted by The Stoa Consortium at the University of Kentucky. Considerable efforts have been devoted to the development of an innovative user interface for these texts, engineered from the ground up. This enables user-selected views of individual source texts, edited texts with either modern or 15th-century punctuation, pop-up textual variants, and English translations. The music examples are not simply graphical images, but generated from alphanumeric text input by means of a custom-built parser; this will eventually enable search queries for particular notational features to be undertaken in a much more sophisticated and meaningful way than hitherto possible, thus setting the groundwork for future, detailed music-theoretical research on other polyphonic repertories of the period. Technical commentaries are being added where appropriate, in order to explicate further the detail of Tinctoris’s often highly complex theoretical expositions.

Texts included in Woodley_01 are the treatises De notis et pausis and Super punctis musicalibus. These new editions include the first English translations ever published.

Since this is an ongoing project, a date-stamped version from December 2013 will remain available on the website (accessed from the front-page Help menu) for assessment during 2014, alongside the current version. The uploaded, partial, placeholder PDFs are not intended to function as assessable representations of the outputs. For browser and platform recommendations, see uploaded PDF cover-sheet.