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Medieval Music Database

Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya 971 (olim 946)

An independent senio of 12 folios which includes a complete Mass Ordinary (Mass of Barcelona), a Gloria and 3 motets. The bifolio used as a binding belongs with the Gerona fragments and is now catalogued as a separate manuscript (see Barc-Ger below).

INVENTORIES


  1. Guillaume de Machaut: Musikalische Werke. Zweiter Band: Einleitung zu I. Balladen, Rondeaux und Virelais. II. Motetten. III. Messe und Lais, edited by Friedrich Ludwig, Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1928, pp. 22, 69a.

  2. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century. Commentary to Volume I, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956 (typescript), pp. 143-147.

  3. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 2. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music (c.1320-1400), edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1969, pp. 90-93.


CONTENTS


  1. fol. 1, Kyrie (Mass of Barcelona) (Kyrie))

  2. fol. 1-8, Mass of Barcelona (Mass setting))

  3. fol. 1v-3v, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona) (Gloria))

  4. fol. 3v-6, Credo (Mass of Barcelona) (Sortis))

  5. fol. 6v-7, Sanctus, Sacro sanctus pater - Sanctus miro gaudio (Mass of Barcelona) (Sanctus))

  6. fol. 7v-8, Agnus Dei (Mass of Barcelona) (Agnus Dei))

  7. fol. 8v-9, Degentis vita - Cum vix artidici - Vera pudicitia (motet))

  8. fol. 9v-10, Kyrie, Rex inmense - Dulcis potens - [Rex inmense] (Kyrie))

  9. fol. 10v-11, Gloria (Johannes de Bosco))

  10. fol. 11v-12, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram] (Bernard de Cluny))


LITERATURE


  1. BESSELER, Heinrich. 'Studien zur Musik des Mittelalters. I. Neue Quellen des 14. und beginnenden 15. Jahrhunderts', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, VII (1925): 167-252.

  2. ANGLÉS, Higini. La Música espanola desde la edad media hasta nuestros dias: Catálogo de la Exposición histórica, Barcelona, 1941, p. 26.

  3. HARDER, Hanna. 'Die Messe von Toulouse', Musica Disciplina, VII (1953):105-128 (p. 108, 110, 113ff).

  4. SCHRADE, Leo. 'The Mass of Toulouse', Revue belge de musicologie, XIII (1954): 84-96 (p. 88, 90ff).

  5. ANGLÉS, Higini. 'La música sagrada de la capilla pontificia de Avignon en la capilla real aragonesa durante el siglo XIV', Anuario musical, XII (1957): 35-44 (p. 35/n2).

  6. HARDER, Hanna and Bruno STÄBLEIN. 'Neue Fragmente mehrstimmiger Musik aus spanischen Bibliotheken', Festschrift Joseph Schmidt-Görg zum 60. Geburtstag, Bonn: Beethovenhaus, 1957, pp. 131-141 (p. 131ff, 137ff).

  7. Fourteenth-Century Mass Music in France, critical edition of the text by Hanna Stäblein-Harder, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1962. Musicological Studies and Documents 7, p. 22f, 35, 39ff, 41f, 44, 57ff, 60f, 67f,.

  8. The Motets of the Manuscripts Chantilly, Musée Condé, 564 (olim 1047) and Modena, Biblioteca Estense, a M. 5,24 (olim lat. 568), edited by Ursula Günther, [n.p.]: American Institute of Musicology, 1965. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 39, p. XXIff.

  9. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.

  10. GALLO, F. Alberto. Il Medioevo, Vol. II, Turin: Edizioni di Torino, 1977. [English translation as Music of the Middle Ages, vol. II, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985], p. 78, Readings 5.2.

  11. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.

  12. HALLMARK, Anne. 'Some evidence for French influence in northern Italy, c.1400', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 193-226.

  13. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Musique et musiciens dans les chapelles de la maison royale d'Aragon (1336-1413)', Musica Disciplina, XXXVIII (1984): 67-86 (p. 79ff).

  14. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.

  15. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268 (p. 267).

  16. RECKOW, Fritz. 'rectitudo-pulchritudo-enormitas. Spätmittelalterliche Erwägungen zum Verhältnis von materia und cantus', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter: 1984,pp. 1-36.

  17. GOMEZ, Maria del Carmen. 'Une version a cinq voix du motet "Apollinis eclipsatur/Zodiacum signis" dans le manuscript E-BCEN 853', Musica Disciplina, XXXIX (1985): 5-44.

CONCORDANCES

1.Apt, Cathédrale Sainte-Anne, Bibliothèque du Chapitre, 16bis (22-23v, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona); 24v-25, Gloria; 40-41, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
2.Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, BM 853 (1, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram]).
3.Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, BM 853b (5-5v, Gloria).
4.Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya, BM 853c/d (1, Kyrie, Rex inmense - Dulcis potens - [Rex inmense]).
5.Barcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya 971c (1v, Kyrie, Rex inmense - Dulcis potens - [Rex inmense]).
6.Barcelona, Biblioteca de L'Orfeó Català 2 (BarcB) (1v-3, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona)).
7.Brussels, Archives du Royaume, Archives Ecclésiastiques 758 (53v, Degentis vita - Cum vix artidici - Vera pudicitia).
8.Cambrai, Bibliothèque Municipale 1328 (4v-6r, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
9.Chantilly, Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564 (62v-63, Degentis vita - Cum vix artidici - Vera pudicitia).
10.Cividale del Friuli, Museo Archeologico Nazionale XCVIII (1v, 41, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
11.Ivrea, Biblioteca Capitolare 115 (12v-13, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram]; 47v-48, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
12.Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, Fragment B.P.L. 2515 (II-IIv, Credo (Mass of Barcelona); I, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram]).
13.Madrid, Archivo Histórico Nacional, Carpeta 1474, frag. 17 (1v, Kyrie, Rex inmense - Dulcis potens - [Rex inmense]).
14.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Handschriften-Inkunabelabteilung, MS Latinus monacensis 14274 (olim Mus. 3232a; Clm 352c) (78v, Gloria).
15.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek 29775 (78v, Gloria).
16.Munich, Bayrische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 29775 (Ar, Gloria).
17.Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14274 (olim M.mus. 3232a) (78v, Gloria).
18.Nürnberg, Stadtbibliothek, fragment lat. 9 (olim Centurio V, 61) (1, Degentis vita - Cum vix artidici - Vera pudicitia).
19.Padua, Biblioteca Universitaria 658 (2v, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram]).
20.Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds nouv. acq. français 23190 (olim Serrant Château, ducs de la Trémoïlle) (1v-2, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram]; 25v-26, Degentis vita - Cum vix artidici - Vera pudicitia; 36v or 44v, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
21.Rochester / New York, Sibley Musical Library, Fleischer fragment 44 (2v, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
22.Solsona, Archivo Diocesano, Fragment 109 (2v, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
23.Strasbourg, Bibliothèque Municipale (olim Bibliothèque de la Ville) 222 C. 22 (41v, Gloria; 52v, Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona); 64v-65, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram]; 81v, Degentis vita - Cum vix artidici - Vera pudicitia).
24.Tarragona, Archivo Histórico Archidiocesano ss(2) (1, Apollinis eclipsatur - Zodiacum signis - [In omnem terram]).
25.Toulouse, Bibliothèque Municipale 94 (1, Credo (Mass of Barcelona)).
26.Yoxford, [manuscript in private possession, on deposit in Keble College Library, Oxford] (2v, Degentis vita - Cum vix artidici - Vera pudicitia).

Recordings of works contained in this manuscript

  1. The Medieval Romantics: CDA66463: Degentis vita; Cum vix artidici; Vera pudicitia;.
  2. Music of the Gothic Era [c.1160 - 1400]: Archiv 2723 045(3) (EUR)/ 2710 019(3) (GER/USA): Degentis vita; Cum vix artidici; Vera pudicitia; Apollinis eclipsatur; Zodiacum signis; [In omnem terram];.
  3. Del Romanic al Renaixement (Antologìa Històrica de la Mùsica Catalana): Harmonia Mundi HMF 10.051 (FRA): Agnus Dei (Mass of Barcelona);.
  4. Ars Nova S. XIV: Missa de Barcelona, Mùsica Profana: Harmonia Mundi HMF 10.033 (FRA): Kyrie (Mass of Barcelona); Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona); Sanctus, Sacro sanctus pater; Sanctus miro gaudio (Mass of Barcelona); Agnus Dei (Mass of Barcelona); Mass of Barcelona;.
  5. Missa Tournai. Missa Barcelona: Harmonia Mundi IC 065-99-870: Kyrie (Mass of Barcelona); Gloria, splendor patris (Mass of Barcelona); Sanctus, Sacro sanctus pater; Sanctus miro gaudio (Mass of Barcelona); Agnus Dei (Mass of Barcelona); Mass of Barcelona;.
  6. Dictionnaire des Instruments Anciens: Harmonia Mundi HMU (3) 445: Agnus Dei (Mass of Barcelona);.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003