Liturgical chant bibliography 30

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After more than a year of challenges caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, we hope that you and your loved ones have managed to remain healthy, active and as happy as possible. The delay of several publications has resulted in a LCB slightly shorter than those produced in the years ante coronam. The list of publications included in this year’s LCB shows that our field is thriving despite the various challenges. We are committed to fill any possible gaps in upcoming LCBs, hoping that the numbers of COVID-19 cases decrease and allow restrictions to ease. As occurred with LCB 29, this year’s LCB was produced under the challenges linked with the pandemic. We were faced again with libraries either entirely closed or with restricted access. In times like this, we are even more grateful for the help and generosity of colleagues and librarians who very kindly provided us with lists of the most recent publications in the field, and even with pictures of the indexes of publications that we would have otherwise been unable to access. We thank them very much for their effort and collaboration. This year brought two editions of importance, the first being a Liber ordinarium from the diocese of Freising near Munich, continuing the long series of F.K. Prassl’s team. The other is a critical edition of the Jistebnice Kancionál by Hana Vlhová-Wörner. The Slovakian team published a series of publications on the Missale Notatum Bratislava, Ústredna knižnica Slovenskej akadémie vied Rkp. zv. 387. Fragmentary sources feature as an important topic this year, with twelve publications related to or building on the worldwide Fragmentarium Project, and with the development of a fragments’ database as well (30005, 30017k, 30018e, 30022d, 30028, 30032, 30045a, 30045b, 30051, 30082, 30086, 30096). These achievements have a great potential of prompting future investigations on fragments, and we hope to see new titles related to this topic in future LCBs. Also worth mentioning is the development of the Catalogue des manuscrits notés en neumes français de la Bibliothèque nationale de France (30095), a database that gathers, describes and aids the analyses of notated manuscripts from this important library. This database aims to help researchers in search of notational influences and concordances. Wewish you, dear reader, the most productive time despite the pandemic. Wewill hopefully meet again soon. For any question, suggestion, and/or bibliographic information, you can reach us through the email address: liturgchantbiblio@gmail.com.We thank you in advance for your help.