TMLr

The Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum was an invaluable archive founded in the 1990s that digitized and hosted nearly all surviving Latin music-theoretical texts. Due to a bafflingly targeted cyber attack and antique digital infrastructure, the TML has been offline for large portions of the past decade.

To keep this important resource available, I have capitalized on its Creative Commons licensing to create a new adaptation of its materials, updating the user experience and streamlining the back-end’s glitchy features. The result is called TMLr: Thesaurus Musicarum Latinarum Revivificatus.

One of the quietly impressive achievements of the original TML project was its staff’s success at obtaining permision from publishers to reproduce copyrighted materials online. Since I have not obtained those permissions myself, the TMLr project does not host copyrighted materials directly; instead, it provides links to archived versions those treatises hosted by the Internet Archive. This approach distinguishes the TMLr from the Fenyx project, which reproduces all texts of the TML corpus, leaving it exposed to claims of copyright violation. The TMLr, by contrast, provides a stable, dependable home for these important, public-domain works of music theory.