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Medieval Music Database

Worcester, Cathedral Library, Additional 68, fragment xix

Three bifolia of English sacred music which were once part of the same volume. Summers has identified ff.a1,b1 and c1 as belonging to the 14thC, while a2,b2 and c2 are in a late 13thC hand. Seven scribes have been identified.

INVENTORIES


  1. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 1. Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music, 11th - Early 14th Century, edited by Gilbert Reaney, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1966, pp. 595, 597-601.

  2. SUMMERS, William J. 'Unknown and unidentified English polyphonic music from the fourteenth century', RMA Research Chronicle, 19 (1983-1985): 57-67.


CONTENTS


  1. a1-a1v (#82), ... merenti modo scitienti (cantilena))

  2. a1v, [untexted work: GB-WOc 68 xix n2] ())

  3. a1v (#82a), Gloria laus et honor... Christie redemptor (Gloria))

  4. b1, Benedictus qui venit (Sanctus))

  5. b1-1v (#83), [untexted work: GB-WOc 68 xix n5] ())

  6. b1v (#84), Agnus Dei (Agnus Dei))

  7. b1v-c1 (#85), Gloria laus et honor... tibi sit (Gloria))

  8. c1v (#86), Gloria laus et honor... tibi sit (Gloria))

  9. c2, [untexted work: GB-WOc 68 xix n9] ())


LITERATURE


  1. Worcester Add. 68, Westminster Abbey 33327, Madrid, Bib. Nac. 192, facsimile edition by Luther Dittmer, Brooklyn, N.Y.: 1959. Publications of Medieval Music Manuscripts 5.

  2. SUMMERS, William J. 'The Worcester fragments reconsidered: a study in "deconstruction"', Sixteenth Annual Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Music, University of Edinburgh: 1988. [unpublished paper].


  3. Content Approved by: MMDB Director
    Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003