To begin the creation of a "group," enter a feast name in the "Feast" box. The available CANTUS feast names will display in a separate
window upon clicking the "Feast List" button located below the fill-in boxes.
Copy and paste a feast name to ensure correct spelling, spacing and punctuation, and use single feast names only.
The feast name must be complete with no wild-card characters in order to access the corresponding records from the CANTUS database.
Use the pull-down list to select the CANTUS abbreviation for the office (i.e., M = Matins, V = Vespers, etc.). Refer to the
"Description of Fields and Their Contents" page for a
listing of the abbreviations.
Use the pull-down list to select the CANTUS abbreviation for the genre (i.e., A = Antiphon, R = Responsory, etc.). Refer to the
"Description of Fields and Their Contents" page for a
listing of the abbreviations.
Click the button "Make Series Group." The new "Series Group" will appear in the table on the left-hand side of the page;
scroll down if necessary. Each "Series Group" has a name which consists of the feast name, the office and the genre.
The material at the top of the screen, consisting of manuscript sigla
and CantusIDNumbers, is
the data of each chant series. This can be viewed in a separate window by clicking
the "Details" button beside the Group Name. The other button, obviously, deletes
a Series Group.
