The project

Clori is a project launched by the Italian Musicological Society (SIdM).

. It concerns the study of the Italian chamber cantata since its beginnings in the seventeenth to the last documents in the nineteenth century. The aim of Clori is to enhance knowledge, and support scholarship in the field of the Italian chamber cantata.
Its efforts are primarily addressed to the crucial aspects of all cantata-related studies: the recognition and classification of all existing sources. Clori will fulfill this goal with the realization of the first web-based index and catalogue of all Italian cantata sources. The Clori index uses a specially designed software and will be constantly updated. The index is organized on a single cantata basis. Every record includes all internationally recognized standard bibliographical fields, plus other informations, if available:

• pictures;
• ranscription of the entire poetic text (enabling a full text search);
• dedications or prefaces;
• owner's personal notes;
• records of incidental documents and/or informations from other sources regarding the cantata (or collections of cantatas);
• bibliography;
• discography;
• recording of the music (when possible).