Financial support
- The Leverhulme Trust (Grant number RPG-2022-338)
- Research England Participatory Research Grants
- Guildhall School of Music & Drama
International Advisory Board
- Professor W. Dean Sutcliffe (chair), New Zealand
- Professor Águeda Pedrero-Encabo, Spain
- Professor Harold Short, UK
Research Team
- Professor Sir Barry Ife CBE (Principal Investigator), UK
- Dr Jasper van der Klis, Netherlands–UK
- Professor Marco Moiraghi, Italy
- Dr Luisa Morales, Spain
- Professor Jérémie Lumbroso, France-USA, played an important role in the early stages but left the project in June 2024
Freelance Research Assistants
- Phoebe Apfel, UK
- Miguel Arnaiz Molina, Spain
- Enrico Baiano, Italy
- Giulio Biddau, Italy
- Erin Black, UK
- Alistair Burton, UK
- Alyssa Campbell, USA
- Dr Penelope Cave, UK
- Ros Chase, UK
- Youngtwo Cheung, Hong Kong–UK
- Juliet Firth, UK
- Will Gardner, UK
- Matthew Geer, UK
- David Hartley, UK
- Álvaro Javier Ibarra Sosa, Mexico–UK
- Michał Kawecki, Poland–UK
- Kristine Kwok, Hong Kong–UK
- Michael Lan, UK
- Dr Laia Martín Hernández, Spain
- Cecily Moorsom, UK
- Ed Rice, UK
- Luis Arturo Romero Estrada, Mexico–Netherlands
- Christine Saunders, UK
- Karina Titova, Spain
- Idil Turgut, Turkey–Netherlands
- Ugne Vazgileviciute, Lithuania–UK
- Robert Warner, USA
- Christine Whiffen, UK
- Raymond Wui Man Yiu, Hong Kong–UK
Collaborating libraries and archives
- Aberystwyth, Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
- Aranzazu, Archivo Musical del Santuario
- Ávila, Archivo – Biblioteca del Monasterio Cisterciense de Santa Ana
- Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya
- Barcelona, Centre de documentació de l’Orfeó Català
- Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Musikabteilung
- Bologna, Museo internazionale e biblioteca della musica di Bologna
- Brussels, Conservatoire royal de Bruxelles, Bibliothèque – Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Bibliotheek
- Cambridge, University Library
- Cambridge, Fitzwilliam Museum
- Chicago, The Newberry Library
- Coimbra, Biblioteca Geral da Universidade
- Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek
- Girona, Arxiu Capitular de la Catedral de Girona
- Heiligenkreuz, Musikarchiv der Zisterzienserabtei Stift Heiligenkreuz
- Lisbon, Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal
- Lisbon, Sindicato dos Musicos
- London, British Library
- London, Foundling Museum
- London, Royal Academy of Music
- London, Royal College of Music
- Lund, Universitetsbiblioteket
- Madrid, Real Conservatorio Superior de Música
- Milan, Conservatorio di Milano
- Montecassino, Biblioteca dell’Abbazia di Montecassino
- Montigny-le-Bretonneux, Archives départementales des Yvelines
- Montserrat, Arxiu Històric Musical de Montserrat
- Münster, Diözesanbibliothek Münster – Santini-Sammlung
- Naples, Biblioteca del Conservatorio di Musica, S. Pietro a Majella
- New Haven, Yale University Library
- New York, Morgan Library & Museum
- Paris, Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal
- Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Département de la Musique
- Parma, Sezione musicale della Biblioteca Palatina
- Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Van Pelt-Dietrich Library Center – Albrecht Music Library
- Philadelphia, Parkway Central Library, Music Department
- Regensburg, Fürst Thurn und Taxis Hofbibliothek
- San Francisco, San Francisco State University, Col. Frank V. de Bellis Collection
- San Pedro de las Dueñas, Archivo del Monasterio Benedictino de San Pedro de Dueñas
- Schwerin, Landesbibliothek Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Günther Uecker, Musikaliensammlung
- Stockholm, Musik- och teaterbiblioteket
- Turin, Biblioteca nazionale universitaria
- Valladolid, Archivo Musical de la Catedral de Valladolid
- Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana
- Vienna, Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Wien
- Zaragoza, Cabildo Metropolitano de Zaragoza
For the Guildhall School of Music & Drama
- Shimon Agur, Head of IT
- Professor Cormac Newark, Head of Research
- Jessica Cockell
- Rachel Kellett
- Dr Victoria Karlsson
- Knut Maseide
- Dr Tatjana Ostrovska
Special thanks to
- Joseph Lou, Princeton University and Google
- Dr Sylvain Barde, University of Kent
- Professor Carlo Lo Presti, Conservatorio Arrigo Boito di Parma
- Dr Heather Windram, University of Cambridge
- Professor Christopher Howe, University of Cambridge
- Holly Mockovak, Boston University
- Marina Demina and Ragnar Köhlin, Stockholm
- Åsa Sjöblom, Lund
- Christine Hashimoto Merritt, Cincinnati
- Professor Glen Wilson, Bavaria
- Dr Trudi Darby, Woodbridge, UK
- Graham Foreman, UK
- Chiara Naldi, Italy–UK
For Curious 12
- Gary Robson
- James Wood
To the memory of those giants on whose shoulders we stand…
Ralph Kirkpatrick (1911-1984)
Malcolm Boyd (1932-2001)
Christopher Hail (1938-2014)
Roberto Pagano (1930-2015)
Joel Sheveloff (1934-2015)
Kenneth Gilbert (1931-2020)
Emilia Fadini (1930-2021)
Eiji Hashimoto (1931-2021)
…this project is respectfully dedicated.
