Dataset for Florentine Trecento Musical Iconography and Contemporary Musical Performance

Author(s)
Stinson, John
Stoessel, Jason
Publication Date
2022-09-19
Abstract
In documenting the use of Trecento musical instruments in Florence, information has been gathered from five categories of documents: payment records from surviving archives, contemporary chronicles, contemporary literature, medieval music theory treatises and relevant modern accounts. Frequently encountered generic names for musicians have not been included in the catalogue of instruments as the instruments actually played are not specified. While the works from which these documents have been extracted make no pretence at giving a factual account of Florentine musical practice, they are important for describing the musical activities of those not usually paid for their musical activity: the amateur players who were an important part of the Florentine soundscape. From the initial file of 48,985 documents, a file of 33,247 unique records was developed with one keyword for each line. All documents with their line numbers are held in the full document in which the keyword is found. This file includes names of instruments, but generic terms for players of instruments as well as more specific terms are listed separately. Non-instrumental musical activities such as singing and dancing and their cognate forms are also listed.
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Language
en
Publisher
University of New England
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International
Title
Dataset for Florentine Trecento Musical Iconography and Contemporary Musical Performance
Type of document
Dataset
Entity Type
Publication

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opendataset/Generic Instrumentalists.htm 17101.942 KB HTML catalogue of references to generic instrumentalists of the Trecento View document
opendataset/InstrumentsOnly.htm 38781.802 KB HTML catalogue of references to musical instruments in Trecento documents View document
opendataset/MusicalActivities.htm 3447.901 KB HTML catalogue of references to singing, dancing and whistling during the Trecento View document
opendataset/Lines.zip 46258.408 KB Zip archive of documentary sources in text format indexed by line View document
opendataset/Read_me.txt 4.798 KB Read Me file - description of data set View document
opendataset/Preamble to Catalogue of Instruments.pdf 211.077 KB application/pdf Preamble to Catalogue of Instruments View document
opendataset/RevisedInstrumentList.csv 329.422 KB Revised Instrument List View document
opendataset/RevisedInstrumentList.htm 325.84 KB Revised Instrument List View document
opendataset/Revised Preface to Documents Searched.pdf 407.434 KB application/pdf Revised Preface to Documents Searched View document