Since the advent of the internet two decades ago, online digital projects in the field of chant studies have emerged which allow unprecedented free access to digital facsimiles, manuscript inventories, and tools for reportorial analysis. These open-access resources save valuable time in locating manuscript concordances and in the comparative analysis of repertoire and variants. They furthermore facilitate two new kinds of reading: the first, a broad survey across a wide sampling of manuscripts made possible by large data collections, and the second, the close examination of individual manuscripts in digital facsimile, unfettered by the constraints posed by traditional archival study. The emergence of such tools has moreover encouraged a refocusing of scholarly interest from the earliest origins of chant to include a diversity of repertoires and practices across space and time.

For individual chant scholars, digital resources not only save valuable time and expand the possibilities of comparative research: they...

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