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VMII lets you search thousands of movements of early vocal music by instrumentation, text, key, meter, range, and occasion.

Cataloguers start with facsimiles or critical editions and work one movement at a time, noting original instrument designations (including continuo and dessus), historical versions, and editorial suggestions. Many entries include include texts, keys, meters, and ranges, which are all searchable.

VMII began as a pandemic project with the cataloguing of the complete vocal works of JS and CPE Bach. The site now includes thousands of movements of a variety of early vocal works.

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