DACT Fragments

the global search for chant fragments

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DACT Fragments is an ongoing research project aiming to unify lost chant manuscripts from around the world. Join us on our journey to revisit and make sense of the musical past! Do you know of a chant fragment? Contact us to become part of the mission.

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charter written in Iceland, St Swithun's Day, 1311; chant for Advent Sunday on the back (/front?) #fragmentfriday https://t.co/kYrwSjoHqM

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what is a nice Aquitanian-looking fragment doing in Mechelen? why are there such English-looking b-flat clefs in Antwerp? #chant mysteries this #fragmentfriday https://t.co/2Y669RB9iV https://t.co/gQm4v8Kodv

[Dr Ann Buckley @annbuckley90]

Fragment of the Office of St Martin in a complete folio used as wrapping for a set of orders taken at Kilkenny by the Lord Deputy and Council in 1548/49. Bellingham Estate, now in Chatsworth House. Pic Brian Donovan,
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#chant adjacent fragments this #fragmentfriday: on the last day of January, how many fragments should you sing at the Clares convent in Bruges? https://t.co/b90g5b7NiS

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colours are faded but still barely visible. must have been very fun to sing from this #chant book when it was new. #fragmentfriday https://t.co/oOa8kr0L4a

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Christmas chants used as flyleaf in a Belgian archive--and the pages got re-used for other musical scribbles! #fragmentfriday https://t.co/D8LL4URikR

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very cool!

[Dr Ann Buckley @annbuckley90]

Fragment of the Office of St Martin in a complete folio used as wrapping for a set of orders taken at Kilkenny by the Lord Deputy and Council in 1548/49. Bellingham Estate, now in Chatsworth House. Pic Brian Donovan,
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related chant for related book covers in Belgium #fragmentfriday https://t.co/6C2Pog6f0Z

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this #fragmentfriday falls in the O antiphons! hard to pick a favourite...

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Happy St Lucy Day! some suitable #chant this #fragmentfriday https://t.co/5Kph6E31LH https://t.co/ojJ5ANE0Vu

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two recordings. https://t.co/hFGKaclT4A and https://t.co/uD8apBVBlu. one is a Norwegian version, one is Hungarian; not quite the same as this Belgian manuscript but goes to show everybody loves st.nick

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happy #StNicholasDay this #fragmentfriday! celebrate with spice cookies, chocolate, and CHANT! https://t.co/FokoA4e5E2

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#fragmentfriday pictures won't load today! ah well, there's a whole #StCecilia day thread I made elsewhere...

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#fragmentfriday working on a presentation about this lil guy https://t.co/vf92VKSSiM

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what is the oldest #chant fragment on @FragmentariumMS ? this page was probably written in 8th c. Ireland, but has 11th c. German-style neumes. to top off its multinational story, it has been in France since at least the 19th c. #fragmentfriday https://t.co/5d3jk3fVCM

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A milestone for MMFC: 1600 fragments from Flemish collections published on Fragmentarium and available to scholars worldwide. #fragmentology https://t.co/hoWLDeFp9U

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and then there's this Fancy French breviary, with just a bit of chant before the opening reading of Matins (late 13th c., Troyes? now in Ottawa). it has a little FACE https://t.co/mlsV7w2U1P

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its #allsaints this #fragmentfriday! some different chants in celebration: this German number (for vespers; ca 1400; now in Stuttgart https://t.co/pkNCp8v5JV)

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this English chant manuscript may not look fancy, but any time you're instructing five children to go chanting with candles in the middle of the night it seems pretty ott (15th c Sarum manuscript, now in Montreal: https://t.co/MQzSNmolfE)

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this chant page @HoughtonLib is not for #StLuke but it has an ox who seems quite nonplussed by squiggly neumes #fragmentfriday https://t.co/1v0svVdXJ2