The website improvisedcounterpoint.com is a research-driven project by Vicente Parrilla, developed within his FWO-funded doctoral project Renaissance Improvised Counterpoint: Rethinking Concept, Cognition, and Aural Foundations (FWO Project no. 11A9922N), conducted at KU Leuven / LUCA School of Arts / docARTES. The project examines how Renaissance improvised counterpoint, once a core performance skill, can be re-engaged today through integrated aural, practical, and scholarly approaches. The website serves as the central digital hub of the project, bringing together its written, sounding, and documentary dimensions.
By integrating digital corpora, transcriptions, and analytically annotated scores with the Corpus of Recorded Counterpoint Examples (CRCE), metadata and documentation, and online listening and search interfaces, the site provides an open-access research environment for studying how early musicians were trained to think, hear, and create polyphony in real time. In this way, it supports both scholarly inquiry and historically informed musical practice through a combination of source-based scholarship, practice-based research, and curated listening resources.