Musique de Jongleur et Musique Savante (XIIIe Siècle) – Prémices de la Polyphonie Suisse (XIVe siècle)

Musique de Jongleur et Musique Savante (XIIIe Siècle) & Prémices de la Polyphonie Suisse (XIVe siècle)
Juggler's Music & Learned Music (13th Century) & Beginning of Swiss Polyphony (14th Century)

Mairy Kuhner; Anspach, Jacquier, Merten - Safford Cape, dir.; Bousquet, Rousselon; Bonté, Deniau, Rousselon - Guillaume de Van, dir.
L'Anthologie sonore 91 [78rpm, France]
The Gramophone Shop « L'Anthologie sonore » AS 91 [78rpm, USA]

Production number on label; matrix number engraved on disc
side 1: AS 137; M6-?
side 2: AS 204; M6-?

Contents:

Anon., 13th c., Chansonnier de l'Arsenal, Arsenal Lib. Ms. 5198, f. 318

1. Juggler's song: En mai la rousée

Anon., ca 1372, Ms. Montpellier H. 196, ff. 321r-v

2. Church motet (à 3): Anima mea - Descendi - Alma Redemptoris

Anon., Switzerland, ca 1372, Engelberg, Ms. 314, f. 180r

3. Benedicamus tropé (à 2): Congaudeant turba

Anon., Switzerland, ca 1372, Engelberg, Ms. 314, f. 142r

4. Motet (à 2): Ad regnum opulentum - Noster coetus

Anon., Roman de Fauvel, Paris, Lib. Nat., frc 146, f 9v

5. Motet (à 3): Je voi doleur - Fauvel nous a fait present - Fauvel autant

Performers:
[1] Mairy Kuhner (mediaeval harp)
[2] Société Pro Musica Antiqua, Brussels
Frédéric Anspach, E. Jacquier, F. Mertens
Safford Cape, dir.
[3]-[4] Bousquet, Rousselon
Guillaume de Van, dir.
[5] Bonté, Deniau, Rousselon
Guillaume de Van, dir.

Playing time: ??' ??"

Recording site and date:
Paris, France [1940 or prior];
Rel.:1940

Compilation:
The Gramophone Shop "L'Anthologie Sonore" (91-100) [78rpm x 10] A synthesis of the musical arts: 14th to 18th centuries, vol. X
Haydn Society « L'Anthologie sonore » AS 2: [LP, mono] The 13th and 14th Centuries
Haydn Society « L'Anthologie sonore » Set HS.AS-A [LPx5, mono] L'Anthologie sonore vol. I.

Comments:
Information from LP and BnF; also from Revue belge de Musicologie, Vol. XXXIV-XXXV (1980-1981): Bernard Gagnepain - Safford Cape et le "miracle" Pro musica antiqua (p. 212); also "The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music", 1948 ed.

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