Improvised Counterpoint: A Research Platform for Sources, Sound, and Practice

As I come to the end of my doctoral research, improvisedcounterpoint.com is gradually becoming the main online home of the project: a space devoted to the study and practical re-engagement of Renaissance improvised counterpoint. The site brings together openly accessible materials that connect historical sources, modern transcriptions, and sound, offering different ways of approaching this repertory through both study and listening.

The platform already provides access to a growing body of open research datasets, including digital corpora of historical sources and the Corpus of Recorded Counterpoint Examples (CRCE), a large audio corpus comprising more than five hours of recorded examples. Together with its listening and search interfaces, these materials aim to make a largely forgotten musical practice more audible, accessible, and relevant to musicians and scholars today, and will continue to grow as the project reaches its final stage.