Long-term online project on Gregorian chant
A complete cycle of Gregorian chants, sung by Benedictine nuns from the Abbey of Notre-Dame de Fidélité de Jouques, was recorded over a period of three years. The approximately 10,000 parts can now be listened to on the Internet.
The initiator of the Neumz project is the American John Anderson, founder of the Odradek Records label, in long-term collaboration with the community of Benedictine nuns of the Notre-Dame de Fidélité Abbey of Jouques in Provence, France, where John Anderson's aunt lived. The community in Jouques has consisted of 45 sisters aged between 26 and 85 since 2017.
The recording project includes the entire Gregorian repertoire with thousands of different chants, which corresponds to a volume of more than 7000 CDs. Each chant is synchronized with the score in quadriquartas developed by Franco of Cologne (13th century music theorist), the Latin text and its translation into the reader's language.
The contents of the Psalter, Lectionary, Collectary, Antiphonary, Responsorial and Gradual are combined into a multimedia Liber Digitalis of the 21st century. The name Neumz is derived from the Latin Neuma: Signs representing one or more sounds in notation.
Website of the project: https://neumz.com/
