The Editor: My name is Rex and I am an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow in the School of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at The University of New England, Armidale, New South Wales.
I have the privilege of a long association with the Institute of Mediaeval Music, Canada which has published two of my editorial projects - An Editorial Transnotation of the Manuscript Capella Sistina 51, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Citta del Vaticano, Liber Missarum and The Complete Extant Transmissions of the Masses by Guillaume Faugues. Two volumes of The Collected Transmissions of the Masses by Johannes Martini have also been published. The CS 51 project is currently being revised and can be found on my Site at: http://massesfromtherenaissance.com My edition of the chansonnier from Ferrara is also underway, see: https://rexeakins.com
The Books: The focus of this Site is to provide editions in common-practice notation and sound files of Renaissance music manuscripts which preserve polyphonic settings of the mass and where included in the source other types of music such as motets. The Site is essentially an extension of my web site Masses from the Renaissance. As noted in Design, the first books to be included here are the Vatican choir book Capella Sistina 55 (VatS 55), choir book made in Ferrara and now located in Modena (ModE M.1.13) and the Liber Missarum MS DCCLXI held in the Biblioteca Capitolare in Verona (VerBC 761).
For the alphabetical lists standard spellings are used; for the editions and list of contents in The Books, source orthographies have been adopted although abbreviations are written in full. 4 voices is the default ensemble; variations to this are usually indicated thus: à3 or à6, for example.
The sound files from time to time include changes in tempo; otherwise no interpretative attributes have been added. These are fundamentally raw files.
To see edition and listen to sound file concurrently:
Select item of interest and click on The Edition for any section of the mass.
Open new window and click on sound file.
Quickly return to The Edition page (i.e. the pdf file) you have opened. (An extra opening measure without sound has been added to enhance return to the pdf file.)