Corpus of Recorded Counterpoint Examples (CRCE), vol. 2: Melchor de Torres — 25 Solo Counterpoint Examples
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KU Leuven
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LUCA School of Arts
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Orpheus Institute
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Description
Description
The Corpus of Recorded Counterpoint Examples (CRCE), vol. 2: Melchor de Torres — 25 Counterpoint Examplespresents instrumental recordings of the counterpoint examples transmitted in Melchor de Torres’s Arte ingeniosa de música (Alcalá de Henares, 1566 [1544]). The recordings form part of the multi-volume Corpus of Recorded Counterpoint Examples (CRCE), a research dataset documenting historically informed realisations of counterpoint examples preserved in Renaissance music theory treatises.
Contents
This dataset contains the complete set of recordings corresponding to the examples transmitted in Torres’s treatise. Audio files are provided in both FLAC and MP3 formats and are accompanied by a volume-specific metadata file describing the musical, analytical, and editorial characteristics of each example.
- https://improvisedcounterpoint.com/recordings/listen — volume-based listening interface
- https://improvisedcounterpoint.com/search — corpus-level analytical navigation and playback environment
- https://aranda.improvisedcounterpoint.com — Mateo de Aranda, Tractado de canto llano: y contrapunto (1535)
- https://lusitano.improvisedcounterpoint.com — Vicente Lusitano, [Trattado grande de musica pratica] (F-Pn Esp. 219, ca. 1550)
Corpus context
The CRCE documents historically informed realisations of counterpoint examples preserved in Renaissance theoretical sources, including treatises by Mateo de Aranda, Melchor de Torres, and Vicente Lusitano. Together, these recordings support research on historical improvisation, contrapuntal pedagogy, and the aural-procedural foundations of Renaissance polyphony.
The corpus forms part of the Improvised Counterpoint Sources and Corpora community on Zenodo, which brings together digital corpora of primary sources and related audio datasets within a unified research framework.
Research framework
The recordings were produced by Vicente Parrilla as part of the doctoral research project Renaissance Improvised Counterpoint: Rethinking Concept, Cognition, and Aural Foundations, carried out at KU Leuven / LUCA School of Arts (docARTES programme) with the support of a PhD Fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, project no. 11A9922N).
Related dataset
Metadata, technical documentation, and corpus-wide information are provided in:
Corpus of Recorded Counterpoint Examples (CRCE): Metadata, Documentation, and Corpus Overview
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18648158
Project website
Further information, related publications, and additional resources are available at:
https://improvisedcounterpoint.com
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