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Medieval Music Database

Sub Arturo plebs vallata; Fons citharizancium; In omnem terram

Three-voice motet by Johannes Alanus

Sources

Bologna: Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Ms Q 15, fol. 225v-226 (3/2), 342v (Triplum, incomplete);
Chantilly: Bibliothèque du Musée Condé 564, fol. 70v-71 (3/2);
Yoxford: [manuscript in private possession, on deposit in Keble College Library, Oxford], fol. 1 (3/2).

Facsimiles

1. WOLF, Johannes. Musikalische Schrifttafeln, Leipzig: 1923, plates 30-31 (CH564).
2. GENNRICH, Friedrich. Abriss der Mensuralnotation des XIV und der ersten Hälfte des XV Jahrhunderts, Nieder-Modau: 1948. Musikwissenschaftliche Studienbibliothek 3-4, plates XVIIIa-b (CH564).

Editions

1. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Das Wort-Ton Problem bei Motetten des späten 14. Jahrhunderts', Festschrift Heinrich Besseler zum sechzigsten Geburtstag, Leipzig: 1961, p. 169.
2. 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. 49.
3. Motets of French Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1968. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century V, p. 172.
4. Two 14th-Century Motets in Praise of Music, edited by Margaret Bent, Devon: Antico Edition AE 15, 1986, p. 1 (Bc15).

Literature

1. COUSSEMAKER, Edmond de. Les harmonistes du XIVe siècle, Paris: 1869.
2. DAVEY, H. History of English Music, 2nd edition, London: 1921, pp. 55-56.
3. REANEY, Gilbert. 'Voices and instruments in the music of Guillaume de Machaut', Revue belge de musicologie, X (1956), p. 98 n. 1.
4. TROWELL, Brian. 'A fourteenth-century ceremonial motet and its composer', Acta Musicologica, XXIX (1957): 65-75.
5. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The post-Machaut generation of poet-musicians', Nottingham Medieval Studies, XII (1968), p. 52.
6. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
7. 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.
8. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 87-88.
9. SANDERS, Ernest H. 'Motet. I. Mediaeval. 3. Ars Nova', The New Grove, XII (1980): 625-628, 646.
10. 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, p. 266.
11. BENT, Margaret. 'Text setting in sacred music of the early 15th century: evidence and implications', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 315-316.
12. 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.
13. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 87, 183, 301.
14. BOWERS, Roger. 'Fixed points in the chronology of English fourteenth-century polyphony', Music and Letters, 71 (1990), pp. 320-323.

Recordings

Music from the Hundred Year War, Musica Reservata, directed by John Beckett (1969): Philips 6747 004 (set 5) (INT).


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