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Antiphon collection
- The initial aims were to transcribe all the plainchant melodies of Hungaryian sources systematically into modern notation and prepare them for publication, genre by genre.
- The project began in 1970.
- The collection of the antiphonal genre, intended to be complete, moved over twenty years
- from “cataloguing” the sung material, standardizing it musically,
- identifying the musical variants,
- through storing it on computer and presenting it as a graphic score
- to producing a “complete edition”.

The first printed edition of the collection of chants
was the work of Benjamin Rajeczky:
Melodiarium Hungariae Medii Aevi, I,
Hymni et Sequentiae
(Budapest: Zeneműkiadó, 1956)
The antiphon volume of the long-standing series
specializing in the early liturgical monody of Europe:
Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi V.
Antiphonen [3 volumes]
(Kassel‒Basel etc.: Bärenreiter, 1999)