Giving Voice to Hispanic Chant through a Phylogenetic Study of Medieval Plainchant

RESOUND

Duration

5 years

Website

https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/101097816

Partners

1 partner

Budget

€2,5 million

Description

The ERC-funded RESOUND project seeks to revive the long-lost sounds of Hispanic chant, one of the earliest Western musical traditions, whose melodies have remained silent due to indecipherable pre-Gregorian notation. Spanning manuscripts from ca. 700 to 1300, these chants recorded only texts and liturgical ceremonies, lacking precise pitch information. RESOUND will employ a groundbreaking interdisciplinary approach—combining bioinformatics, genetics, computational analysis, virtual restoration, aural architecture, and musical performance—to reconstruct these melodies for the first time. By doing so, the project not only recovers a forgotten soundscape of medieval Europe but also offers new insights into the origins and evolution of plainchant across the continent.

MATICAL’s role

Proposal review

Programme / Type

Horizon Europe | ERC Advance Grant (ERC AdG)

Area

Digital humanities, big data, computational analysis

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Description

MATICAL’s role

Proposal review

Programme / Type

Horizon Europe | ERC Advance Grant (ERC AdG)

Area

Digital humanities, big data, computational analysis

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