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The Melodiarium Hungariae Medii Aevi Digitale website publishes a modern transcription of the chant melodies survived in notated liturgical manuscripts originating in the domain of Medieval Hungary. The plainchant (cantus planus), as the monodic high culture of the Middle Ages lived within the framework of the two main types of ceremony of the Western Latin liturgy, the mass and the divine office. Accordingly, our music database is primarily arranged in the framework of these liturgies: cantus missae  contains the melodies of the proper chants (introit, gradual, alleluia, offertory, communion) within the  mass, while the cantus officii contains antiphons, responsoria prolixa and hymns within the chants of the office broken down by the genres listed above. These two are joined by a third category of chants which do not strictly fit in any of the frames (cantus aliorum rituum).