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Medieval Music Database

Veni sancte spiritus

Four-voice motet by John Dunstable

Sources

Aosta: Biblioteca del Seminario Maggiore A1 D19, fol. 274v-275, 276v-277;
London: British Library, Additional 57950 (olim Old Hall, Library of St. Edmund's College), fol. 55v-56 (4/4);
Modena: Biblioteca Estense e Universitaria, a. X.1.11 (Lat. 471; olim VI.H.15), fol. 109v-111;
Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Musica 3224, fol. 5-6 (Tenor, end Triplum, Contratenor inc.);
Trent: Castello de Buon Consiglio 92, fol. 182v-184.

Editions

1. The Old Hall Manuscript, edited by Alexander Ramsbotham, completed by H.B. Collins and Dom Anselm Hughes, 3 vols., Nashdom Abbey, Burnham, Buckinghamshire: Plainsong and Medieval Music Society, 1933-1938, Vol. II, p. 66.
2. The Old Hall Manuscript, edited by Andrew Hughes and Margaret Bent, 3 vols., American Institute of Musicology, 1973. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 46, Vol. II, p. 66.

Literature

1. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, pp. 124-125.
2. 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. 323-324.


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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003


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