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The AMS is pleased to announce this year’s recipients of Early Music Program Fund (EMPF) grants, which support educational or field-building programming for researchers studying music in the period before c. 1600. Application is restricted to AMS-affiliated committees, chapters, and study groups.

The recipients of this year’s EMPF grants are as follows:

The AMS New England Chapter has received funding for “Cataloging Otto F. Ege’s Liturgical Manuscript Fragments in the Cantus Database.” The Digital Analysis of Chant Transmission (DACT) project proposes to assemble a team of students to index fragments of eight liturgical chant manuscripts represented in Otto F. Ege’s Fifty Original Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts portfolios for the open-source Cantus Database, a resource essential to the study of Latin liturgical music. DACT mentors will instruct student indexers in data-entry protocols specific to fragmented chant sources and lead them through the indexing process, building essential professional skills and networks, while contributing an interdisciplinary scholarly resource of lasting value.

 

The AMS Skills and Resources for Early Musics Study Group has received funding for “Early Musics Skills Refreshers.” Early Musics Skills Refreshers are educational, field-building courses designed to provide an intensive review of essential skills needed for research in the fields of premodern music repertories and traditions. Each co-taught course will meet for one, full day of online training to allow scholars to regain or bolster a skillset. They also provide participants with the opportunity to explore more specialized resources for further study, including access to both print and digital tutorials and guides as well as digitized resources. In its pilot year, two (2) Early Musics Skills Refreshers courses will be offered: one in Music Paleography and another in Music & Liturgy.

The AMS congratulates the recipients of this year’s EMPF grants and thanks all who applied for participating in the program and working to strengthen the Society’s resources and programs for the study of early music.