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Description The Corpus of Recorded Counterpoint Examples (CRCE) documents historically informed instrumental realisations of counterpoint examples transmitted in Renaissance music theory treatises. Presented as a research dataset, the corpus provides performative documentation of pedagogical repertories associated with the training of improvising musicians in early modern Europe. The CRCE currently comprises six volumes corresponding to distinct documentary sources, namely Mateo de Aranda, Melchor de Torres, and Vicente Lusitano. Owing to the scale and internal organisation of Lusitano’s Libro segundo, its material is distributed across four separate CRCE volumes. Together, these datasets form a large and systematically structured body of recorded counterpoint examples derived from primary theoretical sources. The corpus currently comprises 420 recorded examples, forming a coherent analytical resource for the systematic investigation of Renaissance contrapuntal practice across analytical, historiographical, and practice-based research contexts. By bringing together edited source materials and recorded realisations within a unified framework, the corpus facilitates the study of the procedural and aural dimensions of early modern counterpoint training. The present dataset provides the metadata, technical documentation, and analytical framework required to interpret and use the CRCE audio datasets as a unified research resource. The CRCE forms part of the Improvised Counterpoint Sources and Corpora community on Zenodo, which brings together digital corpora of primary sources and associated audio datasets within a shared research context. Contents The dataset includes: corpus-wide metadata volume-specific metadata tables metadata field specifications search and navigation architecture specifications documentation architecture policy audio normalisation workflow metadata model changelog Each CRCE volume dataset contains the corresponding audio recordings and associated metadata. The corpus is distributed across the following six datasets: CRCE, vol. 1: Mateo de Aranda — Tractado de canto llano: y contrapunto (1535)https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18944002 CRCE, vol. 2: Melchor de Torres — Counterpoint exampleshttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18944766 CRCE, vol. 3: Vicente Lusitano — Libro segundo, solo counterpoint exampleshttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18944882 CRCE, vol. 4: Vicente Lusitano — Libro segundo, concerted counterpoint exampleshttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18944977 CRCE, vol. 5: Vicente Lusitano — Libro segundo, canonic counterpoint exampleshttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945152 CRCE, vol. 6: Vicente Lusitano — Libro segundo, mensural counterpoint exampleshttps://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18945232 The audio recordings documented in this corpus are available through the individual CRCE datasets. Contextual access to selected materials is provided through the project’s treatise-specific companion sites: https://aranda.improvisedcounterpoint.com — Mateo de Aranda, Tractado de canto llano: y contrapunto (1535) https://lusitano.improvisedcounterpoint.com — Vicente Lusitano, Trattado grande de musica pratica (F-Pn Esp. 219, ca. 1550) Additional corpus-level access is provided through the project website, which integrates the recordings, metadata, and documentation within a unified research environment: https://improvisedcounterpoint.com/recordings/listen — volume-based listening interface https://improvisedcounterpoint.com/search — corpus-level analytical navigation and playback environment Research framework The corpus was produced by Vicente Parrilla as part of the doctoral research project Renaissance Improvised Counterpoint: Rethinking Concept, Cognition, and Aural Foundations, carried out at KU Leuven and LUCA School of Arts within the docARTES programme, with the support of a PhD Fellowship from the Research Foundation – Flanders (FWO, project no. 11A9922N). Project website Further information, related publications, and additional resources are available athttps://improvisedcounterpoint.com