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DATA
FIELDS
Information is entered into the database in fields
that provide information about each source and work as well as in fields
used strictly for sorting. The source of most information in the data
fields is listed in brief form in the Citation field.
FIELDS
PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT THE ORIGINAL SOURCE
1.
Source
For
printed anthologies, this is an abbreviated title of the volume; the
definitive identification for prints is the RISM siglum
in the Date field. For manuscripts, the library sigla
are provided in the style of the Census-Catalogue,
i.e., city abbreviation, library abbreviation, and shelf number. All
database sources are listed below.
2.
Date of Source
For
prints, the date and superscript as assigned by RISM
amounts to a positive identification as well as a dating of the source.
For manuscripts, the field provides the year or range of years assigned to
the manuscript by recent scholarship. When a range is supplied, the
operative sorting date is the earliest year indicated. Sorting on this
field will yield not only a chronological listing of sources and works,
but can be used in tandem with place fields to assist in determining
dissemination patterns of works.
3.
Scribe or Publisher
These
are the names indicated in the original source or as proposed in recent
scholarship. In some cases, we have only the number of hands, the initials
of a scribe, or the name of a workshop or scriptorium. Any such
information is entered in this field. This information is useful for
associating particular scribes or publishers with specific motet
repertories. It will be of special interest to scholars of printing,
musical patronage, manuscripts, and paleography.
Place
Information
Place
information for the sources has been broken into three separate fields, as
listed below. For prints, the city and country are the place of
publication; for manuscript, the provenance as determined by modern
scholarship (author/date citation provided). Country names are often
anachronistic and are based on secondary sources, but are included because
more accurate manuscript information is often not available. Place names
and spellings are standardized according to the usage in Encyclopedia
Brittanica. Information on musical establishments is available for
only a relatively small number of sources.
To facilitate searching by geographic regions, I have designated a place
code field for eight major regions of Europe.
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Place
Code
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Database Records
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Geographic area
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1
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20,614
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Germany/Austria/Switzerland/Bavaria/Saxony
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2
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11,208
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Italy/ Savoy
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3
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5,666
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Bohemia/Poland/Silesia/Czechoslovakia/Moravia/
Slovakia/Rumania/Ukraine/Prussia/Slovenia
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4
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3,181
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Belgium/Netherlands
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5
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1,832
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Spain/Portugal
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6
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1,662
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France
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7
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1,793
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England/Scotland/United
Kingdom
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8
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441
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Denmark/Sweden
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4.
Musical Establishment or Patron
The court, church, city, or individual patron associated with the
source, if known.
5.
City of Origin or use
6.
Country of Origin or
use
7.
Place code
8.
Citation
Citations
refer primarily to the sources of the inventories. These sources include
published catalogues as well as unpublished inventories. This field
provides brief bibliographic information (author/date citation) for
published sources; citations for unpublished inventories include the name
of the researcher who created the inventory, when known, and the location
of the inventory. Additional information in the field cites sources of
various types of information that may be entered in any of the fields,
often concordance listings, information used to resolve conflicting
attributions, and general information entered in “Motet comments.”
These citations are necessarily cursory. The Census-Catalogue
provides more complete lists of literature for each source. See the
key to citation abbreviations below.
9.
Comments on the source
Source comments provide information applicable to the entire
source, for instance,
dedicatee, whether it is a reprint, etc.
10. MS/PT
This
field simply identifies the source as a manuscript or print. It is useful
for searching (for calling up only one type of source) and for sorting
(quickly separating the two types of sources within a file).
FIELDS
PROVIDING INFORMATION ABOUT INDIVIDUAL MOTETS
11.
Order in Source
The
position of the motet in its original source. For uniformity, clarity, and
ease of sorting, the position is indicated, when feasible, by order rather
than by folio or pagination.
This
field will allow the entire motet contents of any print or manuscript to
be reconstructed in the proper order. The ordering accounts for all the
works in the source, not just the motets. In motets with multiple parts,
each part is entered and numbered separately (1a, 1b, 1c, etc.). Sorting
by source and order will reveal the correct combinations and orders of
motet parts.
12.
Composer
The name
as given in the print, manuscript, or inventory consulted.
13.
Text Incipit (in effect,
the motet's title)
The
opening phrase or phrases of text. Each motet part is assigned a separate
record; thus searches by incipit can locate the opening of any parte,
not just the first. It is important to be aware, in the discussions of
statistics, whether motets or records are the point of reference.
14.
Number of Voices
This
information is included only when it is provided in the inventory or known
from the original source itself and is not simply added for every presumed
occurrence of a particular motet.
15.
Type
The
motet may be designated in original sources or in secondary literature as
a responsory, antiphon, prosula, etc. Intabulations are also noted in this
field. This information is not intended to suggest actual liturgical
usage, but normally refers to the classification of the text.
16.
Comments on the Motet
Miscellaneous
information about a particular work may be supplied by the original source
or secondary literature, including marginal dates or comments; performing
instructions; occasion for which the work was composed; liturgical season
or usage; origin of the text; incomplete parts; presence and/or
identification of a cantus firmus,
canon, or known contrafact.
17.
Core Repertory (CR)
A
“y” (for “yes”) in this field signifies that the motet is one of
the 54 works constituting the core repertory. See the discussion of the
core repertory in Chapter 6.
18.
Concordances
Other
manuscripts or prints containing the same motet.
This
information, taken primarily from secondary literature, is useful for
identifying additional sources for an anonymous motet and for
distinguishing between multiple settings of a single text by one composer.
Much of the concordance information is taken from Lincoln’s The
Latin Motet: Indexes to Printed Collections (see footnote 4) was the
source for the concordance, indicated in the citation field by “Lincoln,
1993.
FIELDS
STANDARDIZED FOR UNIFORM SORTING AND SEARCHING
19. Standardized
Composer Name
Composers’
names are standardized in spelling and form to conform to the
authoritative reference in the field, New
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians (1980). For composers not
included in New Grove, I have
adopted a spelling from one of the sources that contain the name.
20.
Standardized Text Incipit
The spelling of the words in the text incipits is standardized to
conform with that of modern liturgical books.
N.B.
In addition to the fields created expressly for sorting, other
fields have been standardized in format to allow sorting as well as
searching. These are: Source, Date of Source, Scribe or Publisher, Place
Information, Source of Inventory, Order in Source, Concordances, Place
Code, Core Repertory, and MS/PT (manuscript or print). The Comments and
Type fields are not currently practical for sorting, though specific
searches can be conducted on them.
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