Volpiano is a font that was created for the transcription of chant melodies. It was developed by Fabian Weber at the University of Regensburg under the direction of David Hiley.
With Volpiano, alphanumeric characters and other symbols are rendered as pitches and other musical elements on standard staves. On Cantus Ultimus, you can use Volpiano to enter a certain melody and search for that melody in available manuscripts.
Volpiano Dictionary
Queries can be entered using the characters below.
In Volpiano, a hyphen ("-") is used to separate pitches, with additional hyphens increasing the separation between pitches.
No separation occurs between pitches in the same neume. One hyphen ("-") separates neumes. Two hyphens ("--") separate neumes associated with different syllables. Three hyphens ("---") separate neumes associated with different words.
Features of Volpiano Search
No chant records begin on this page or folio side.