About the Project

Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Mass (CRIM) will extend the idea of the quotable text for music in an innovative, open-source format. The focal point of our inquiry is the so-called “imitation” Mass, a Renaissance musical genre notable for the ways in which its composers derived new, large-scale works from pre-existing ones.

This rich weave of relationships seems particularly suited to the Music Encoding Initiative (MEI) XML standard that serves as the basis of our digital editions, and for the enhanced capabilities of addressing scores with pinpoint accuracy developed during two recent projects supported by the NEH, The Lost Voices Project (2010-2014) and Enhancing Music Addressability (2014-2015).

We will soon extend addressability to various para-texts that give meaning to the musical citations themselves via a participatory multi-author publication system using Linked Open Data technologies such as Open Annotation Collaboration.

Explore the CRIM Playlist on Spotify!

• CRIM @ Spotify

Invitations and Updates: How to Participate!

• General Invitation to Participate

• August 2020 Updates

• December 2020 Updates

• January 2022 Updates and watch video of updates (or in three slides)

  • Archive of 2022 CRIM Open Meeting Recordings (recordings)

Orientation and Training Videos (2022 Versions)

• 1. Quick Orientation

  2. Tour of CRIM Website. How to make and Edit Relationships. All about Advanced Search. (updated Sept 2022)

  3. Tour of CRIM Editor's Forum Site

  4. Renaissance Style in Six Measures

  5. CRIM 2022 Musical Types Explained

  6. CRIM 2022 Relationship Types Explained

  7. The Story of a Soggetto (from MEI to Screen and Data Models)

  8. Introduction to CRIM Intervals and Notebooks (updated Sept 2022)