MUSICA is a project those goals is to gather information on all choral music of the world into the single research tool.
It is an international project and the database is therefore multilingual (French, German, English and Spanish), containing over
151,000 references (April 2008), what represents dozens of year-men of work.
Its evolution to become a virtual multimedia library is underway. However this work will take many years,
and the contribution of volunteers of the world's choral community is welcome to fasten its completion.
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The documentary structure of each record is a set
of 80 different types of information (composer, arranger, publisher, title, genre and form, level of difficulty, type of choir, language,
century, instrumentation, etc ...). Even the musical themes are input for search and display. Musica on the Web will soon allow you to search on
a musical theme!
For the moment, if you need to do such a search, you should get in touch with one of the Musica partners.
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| Each documentary field is subject to controls of coherence and homogeneity.
Around twenty of them translate automatically by means of multilingual thesaurus elaborated by the team of Musica International.
Thus a partner inputting data in a given language finds them automatically translated in all other activated languages.
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