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Tomás Luis de Victoria's music is basically polyphonic and religious. Precisely for this second feature, to study Victoria's masterpieces  we must take into accont the use the monodic music during the divine services in Victoria's life. To know this repertory we would like to highlith the efforts of the Cantus Manuscript Database. It is a webpage organized by group of researchers (around seventy), mainly based in Anglo-Saxon universities, although not only.

The international project  'Music And Late Medieval European Court Cultures' (MALMECC) is an interdisciplinary research group funded by the European Research Council (ERC) and leader by some researches of the University of Oxford. Nevertheless the team is composed of musicologists from the United Kingdom, France, Spain, Slovakia and Poland.

The research project "The anatomy of Iberian polyphonic music from the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries" (PTDC / CPC-MMU / 0314/2014) offers to all accademics an open-access resource and research tool of Hispanic and Portuguese music between 1470 and 1520. This is a research project located at the Unviersidade Nova de Lisboa and coordinated by João Pedro d'Alvarenga. Its goals are contextualize and value Hispanic music in the context of the European polyphony.

There are many seasons, concerts and conferences (about Early Music bt not only) that have been canceled or postponed these days due to COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic. But it is also true that the cultural institutions, and also musicians, had hightly support the movements #yomequedoencasa #stayathome #iorestoacasa that seek, or enhance the recommended isolation of citizens, or make the quarantine and isolation imposed in some territories more bearable.