Tasso in Music Project (TiMP): Digital Edition of the Settings of Torquato Tasso’s Poetry, c. 1570–1640

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Review| April 01 2021 Tasso in Music Project (TiMP): Digital Edition of the Settings of Torquato Tasso’s Poetry, c. 1570–1640 Tasso in Music Project (TiMP): Digital Edition of the Settings of Torquato Tasso’s Poetry, c. 1570–1640. Emiliano Ricciardi, Director and General Editor; Craig Stuart Sapp, Technical Director. URL: https://www.tassomusic.org/ Lucia Marchi Lucia Marchi LUCIA MARCHI is adjunct faculty in the Modern Languages Department and the School of Music at DePaul University in Chicago. She is a specialist in late medieval music and the Italian madrigal. Her work has appeared in Recercare, Acta musicologica, Essays in Medieval Studies, and Studi musicali. Her critical edition of Luca Marenzio’s Fourth Book of Madrigals for Six Voices is forthcoming on MODE (www.marenzio.org). She is a member of the Musicology at Kalamazoo program committee. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the American Musicological Society (2021) 74 (1): 187–195. https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.1.187 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Lucia Marchi; Tasso in Music Project (TiMP): Digital Edition of the Settings of Torquato Tasso’s Poetry, c. 1570–1640. Journal of the American Musicological Society 1 April 2021; 74 (1): 187–195. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.1.187 Download citation file: Ris (Zotero) Reference Manager EasyBib Bookends Mendeley Papers EndNote RefWorks BibTex toolbar search Search nav search search input Search input auto suggest search filter All ContentJournal of the American Musicological Society Search Databases change the way we do research, both because of the quantity of information they make available, and because of the unexpected paths along which they guide and redirect our original intentions. I am not suggesting that serendipitous discoveries are not afforded by traditional methods of research—one might, for example, browse the shelves of a library—but simply that, in the computer-assisted humanities, such a process is implicit in every kind of query. Up to now, scholars interested in assessing the considerable impact of the Italian poet Torquato Tasso (1544–95) on the madrigal repertoire have had to rely on the indices of the so-called “Nuovo Vogel,”1 on RISM (series A/I and B/I), or on a list compiled by Antonio Vassalli in the “classic” Tasso, la musica, i musicisti of 1988.2 One would consult a traditional catalog of this kind with a specific question in mind (for example, Which composers... You do not currently have access to this content.