chant21 improves the support for plainchant in
music21.
- Converters for GABC and Volpiano as used by the Cantus Database.
- Represention of the chants complete structure in
music21: its division in sections, words, syllables and neumes. - Very fast and interactive chant visualization in Jupyter notebooks.
- Usable with two large plainchant Corpora: the GregoBaseCorpus and the CantusCorpus.
Chant21 is free and open source software licensed under the MIT license. The
gabc files in chant21/examples come from GregoBase and are in the public
domain (CC0); the volpiano examples come from the Cantus Database and are
licenced under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. If you use Chant21 in your research, please cite
the paper describing the software:
(forthcoming)
You probably also want to cite music21.