The building of the RCH Institute for Musicology will be closed between November 1, 2022 and March 31, 2023 due to technical reasons. The staff of the Institute can be reached by email. Thank you for your understanding!
This closure only concerns the Institute itself, the Museum of Music History is still open from 10:00 to 16:00 every day, except for Mondays. |
Corpus Antiphonalium Officii ‒ Ecclesiarum Centralis Europae (CAO‒ECE)
- The project began in the 1980s.
- Its aims are to explore the medieval office rites of the Central European region, organize them into databases, subject them to comparative analysis, and publish them;
- Separation of essential elements of the tradition from incremental ones, and to reconstruct the system of sources, source groups, traditions and sub-traditions, based on the whole corpus of chants;
- Definition of the complete “ideal” office repertories, preserving at the same time the differences and variants of the individual sources;
- Introduction of a new approach to research methodology, in which the medieval system of offices is seen as an organic whole and its single sources as individual manifestations of this.
- Chronology:
- 1988: the first “experimental” preliminary volume presenting the CAO‒ECE and the Advent offices of 14 Central European dioceses (László Dobszay and Gábor Prószéky).
- 1990‒2014: twelve single volumes with the offices of Salzburg, Bamberg, Prague, Esztergom, Kalocsa-Zagreb, Transylvania-Nagyvárad, and Aquileia, surveys of sources and accounts of the main features in each tradition (László Dobszay, Zsuzsa Czagány, Andrea Kovács and Gabriella Gilányi).
- 2006: Continuing: production of an online CAO‒ECE version with extra search options (Gábor Kiss).
- 2015: incorporating the CAO‒ECE into a uniform system for international plainchant internet databases (cantusindex.org; hunchant.eu).