The Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum (CRM)

Abstract

The Corpus Rhythmorum Musicum (CRM), conceived by Francesco Stella, presents the critical edition of rhythmical Latin poems set to music from the 4th to 9th centuries. The project – promoted by the University of Siena in collaboration with the International Society for the Study of the Latin Middle Ages (SISMEL), with the support of the European Commission (TMR1998-2000 project) and the PRIN 2002-2004 and 2006-2008 projects – led to the publication of numerous preparatory studies presented at the Arezzo 1998 and Ravello 1999 conferences, and at the Munich Euroconference 2001. The first volume and CD-ROM on the Songs in non-Liturgical Sources were published in 2007, followed in 2011 by the online edition, expanded with new texts and functions in 2020 by Luigi Tessarolo. The CRM provides the critical edition with diplomatic and semi-diplomatic transcriptions of all the witnesses and musical notations, as well as recordings of the singing performances. Manuscript images, philological apparatus, linguistic statistics, metrical tables, and neumatic tables offer an open and verifiable edition, with a wealth of material for various types of research, thanks to a search interface that allows the intersection of textual, metrical, linguistic, and musical data.