Dataset for Florentine Trecento Musical Iconography and Contemporary Musical Performance

In documenting the use of Trecento musical instruments in Florence, information has been gathered from five categories of documents: payment records from surviving archives, contemporary chronicles, contemporary literature, medieval music theory treatises and relevant modern accounts. Frequently encountered generic names for musicians have not been included in the catalogue of instruments as the instruments actually played are not specified. While the works from which these documents have been extracted make no pretence at giving a factual account of Florentine musical practice, they are important for describing the musical activities of those not usually paid for their musical activity: the amateur players who were an important part of the Florentine soundscape. From the initial file of 48,985 documents, a file of 33,247 unique records was developed with one keyword for each line. All documents with their line numbers are held in the full document in which the keyword is found. This file includes names of instruments, but generic terms for players of instruments as well as more specific terms are listed separately. Non-instrumental musical activities such as singing and dancing and their cognate forms are also listed.

为记录佛罗伦萨地区特雷森托（Trecento）时期乐器的使用情况，本数据集从五类文献中采集相关信息：留存档案中的付款记录、同时代编年史、同时代文学作品、中世纪音乐理论论著，以及相关现代研究记述。由于未明确提及演奏者实际使用的乐器，因此本乐器名录未收录常见的乐手通用称谓。尽管提取这些文献的原始作品并未声称可如实展现佛罗伦萨的音乐实践，但它们对于记录那些通常不以音乐活动获取报酬的群体的音乐活动至关重要——这类群体是构成佛罗伦萨声学景观的重要组成部分的业余演奏者。从初始的48985份文献中，我们构建了包含33247条唯一记录的数据集，每条记录对应一行关键词。所有包含该关键词的完整文献及其行号均已留存。本数据集涵盖乐器名称，但乐手的通用称谓与更具体的演奏相关术语将单独列出。非器乐类音乐活动（如歌唱、舞蹈及其相关衍生形式）也已纳入收录范围。