This project was initiated in 1998 at Indiana University by Andreas Giger (now at Louisiana State University), who ran it until 2018, maintained at the Jacobs School of Music Center for the History of Music Theory and Literature. It was designed to extend the Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum by making available and searchable texts on music theory and literature written in Italian.
In 2015, the software operating the original search utility was the object of a malicious cyberattack, and had to be shut down. In 2017, the website was restored to its original layout and functionality with a new search utility. In 2019, redevelopment of the project has started with the goal of making this part of a new searchable archive of historical music theory texts in the vernacular languages.
For more information about this website, its current scope and content, please consult the Introduction to Saggi musicali italiani. For more information about the future of the project, email chmtl@indiana.edu
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