Catalogue and corpus of ordinary chants


 

  • Founded in the 1970s, this project began with transcribing the ordinary chants of three representative graduals from Hungary.
  • Expanded from 1993, it continued to transcribe further ordinary sources from Hungary.
  • Aims:
    • To review the whole Hungarian repertory of ordinary chants and compare them with the European chant corpus in foreign catalogues.
    • To compile a more complete corpus of chants from Central Europe by processing Hungarian, Bohemian/Moravian, Austrian and Polish sources.
  • It contains the details of over 100 source materials each with over 200 items and transcriptions, amounting to a total of over 2000 chants.
  • Presentation of the research findings and publication of the collection in a chant-catalogue form occurred in 2009:

 

Ordinarium

Gábor Kiss, Ordinariums-Gesänge in Mitteleuropa.
Repertoire-Übersicht und Melodienkatalog.
Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, Subsidia Band VI

(Kassel–Basel, etc.: Bärenreiter, 2009)