On 11 November 2024, we launched the complete publication on the Integrated Database for Early Music (IDEM) of carillon manuscripts from the ancien régime. The Alamire Foundation's ambition is to digitally preserve all sources for carillon music from this period associated with the Low Countries and make them available to researchers, musicians, teachers, and students worldwide.

The first phase included manuscripts from Antwerp, Leuven, Brussels, Paris, Asten, Sint-Omaars, and Delft. Today, a second series of some thirty sources from, among others, Gdańsk, Lake Wales (Florida, all of which are from Antwerp), Salzburg, and Darmstadt is being made available online. These music manuscripts, dating from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, were in most cases digitized in situ by the mobile Alamire Digital Lab. All digital sources, accompanied by detailed metadata and an extensive bibliography, can be consulted on the IDEM website. The Alamire Foundation will roll out the third and final part of this carillon project in the course of 2025. In the meantime, you can already consult some 67 sources with more than 2,800 compositions or arrangements for carillon in the database.