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Scriptorium

A chant engraver that knows the rules.

Square notation, set properly. The live engraving demonstrations below use the app's own parser, font outlines, and spacing. A proper instrument for the written chant.

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CANTORI SACRED MUSIC NETWORKTradition, engraved precisely

Watch it write one

A new chant, composed and engraved in front of you. Different every time you open the page.

Punctum

Podatus

Clivis

Torculus

Porrectus

Climacus

Quilisma

Scandicus

Punctum

Mode VII·Mixolydian, final on G·Setting syllable 4 of 4

Look closely at any of them

If a neume is drawn wrongly here, it is drawn wrongly in the product. That is the correct relationship between a claim and a thing.

Porrectus. Down and back up without lifting the nib. Meinrad cuts one glyph per descent, curved and straight, and the rise decides which.

Quilisma. The toothed note. It is passed through lightly and the note BEFORE it lengthens — the thing chant software gets backwards most often.

Climacus. A virga and a fall of leaning diamonds, gathering speed. Nothing is ever ruled between the diamonds.

One melody, two centuries of ink

The opening of the Salve Regina, re-engraved in front of you every few seconds. The melody never moves. Only the rhythmic ink over it changes — the Solesmes dots and episemata appear and vanish while the Vatican page underneath stays still.

Aria the Scrivener

Ask for a phrase.
Watch her set it.

Give Aria a text and a mode and she writes chant onto the stave — real neumes the engraver draws and the checker approves, not a picture of music. Everything she sets stays editable: drag a note, split a syllable, ask her to try the cadence again. The phrase below was written by Aria in the studio and is engraved here live.

set by Aria · mode 6 · Lux aeterna luceat eis

What it does

Engraved from the font, not from a guess

Every sign is the Meinrad chant font's own outline — the punctum with the inward bow a broad nib leaves, the quilisma with its real teeth, both clefs. Where no single glyph exists, the figure is composed to the book's rules: heads touching inside a neume, hairline joins, and the four spaces gabc distinguishes.

It sings rather than sequences

Lengths come from the marks. A mora dot doubles the note, an episema broadens it without doubling, a quilisma lengthens what precedes it, a climacus gathers speed as it falls. Then a performance layer leans into the cadences, breathes at the bars, and varies the timing the way a schola does.

Compose by tapping, not by typing code

Tap a neume, tap a syllable. Type words straight onto the stave and press space for the next one — run off the end and the syllable arrives with a note already over it. Drag notes to shape the line. GABC is there when you want it and never required.

It reads the chant back to you

Mode and final, ambitus against your schola's range, the standard formulas it recognises, phrase and breath structure, and a checker that flags a quilisma that falls, an accidental chant does not use, or a leap no voice would phrase.

Three centuries, one melody

Switch between the Vatican edition, the Solesmes markings and a semiological reading. The music never changes — only which era's marks are printed. Psalm pointing and the eight tones are built in.

Made for paper and for the loft

SVG, PNG and PDF at engraving quality, with a print preview that shows the page as it will actually come out. Give the schola the note, drill any passage on a loop, and put an illuminated initial at the head of the page.

Aria writes with you

Ask Aria the Scrivener for a phrase in mode 2 over a given text and she sets it on the stave — real neumes, in the mode, obeying the rules the checker enforces. Keep it, reshape it by hand, or ask again. She drafts; you decide.

Share it singing

Every chant can become a public page with the engraving and the playback on it. Send one link to the schola and they hear the line sung before Thursday's rehearsal — no account needed to listen.

A library that keeps your work

Save a chant, reopen it next season, keep the parish's whole repertoire in one place. Open anything from the library and it is exactly as you left it — the clef, the words, the marks.

Included with every Cantori account

Scriptorium is one of the five apps in the Cantori Sacred Music Network. A chant you engrave here can be posted to the Loft, dropped into a booklet, or set in the Ordo for Sunday — without leaving the suite.

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