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Monophonic Tropes and Conductus of W1: The Tenth Fascicle. Edited by Jann Cosart. Middleton, WI: A-R Editions, c2007. (Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance, 38.) [Sigla, p. vii; acknowledgments, p. viii; introd., p. ix-xxiii; texts and trans., p. xxiv-xxxi; facsimile of W1, 10th fascicle, 16 p.; transcription, 29 p.; crit. report, p. 31-34; appendix, p. 35-38. ISBN 978-0-89579-622-6, 0-89579-622-8. Paper. $68.]
Scholarly editions of music from the principal manuscripts of the Notre Dame school have tended to favor polyphony. Notable exceptions include Gordon Athol Anderson's publications of the monophonic conductus in the tenth fascicle of the manuscript F (Florence, Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana, Plut. 29.1) and the Latin rondelli drawn mostly from the eleventh fascicle of this same source (available in volumes 6 and 8 of his Notre Dame and Related Conductus: Opera omnia, Gesamtausgaben, 10 [Henryville, PA: Institute of Mediaeval Music, 1979-]). Now, thanks to Jann Cosart and A-R Editions, we have another, very welcome collection of monophony taken this time from W1 (Herzog August Bibliothek, Cod. Guelf. Helmstedt 628), one of the two large codices of Notre Dame music presently housed in Wolfenbuttel, yet executed in Scotland and containing both Parisian and insular music. The single gathering of eight folios that forms the remnants of W1's tenth fascicle preserves three conductus (the first fragmentary but reconstructable) and a set of twelve extraordinarily florid Mass Ordinary tropes: six each to a single parent chant of the Sanctus and Agnus Dei. Of these fifteen pieces, only the first two conductus survive in other Notre Dame manuscripts and are thus available in Anderson's edition; the remaining melodies are unique to this source, while the Ordinary tropes--since they belong outside the...
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