Music of the Early Middle Ages, vol. 3

History of European Music - Part I: Music of the Early Middle Ages, vol. 3
aka Adam de la Halle et le XIIIe Siècle: des motets aux danses médiévales)
Schola Cantorum Londiniensis - Edgar Fleet, dir. & Denis Stevens, musical dir.
Orpheus (Musical Heritage Society) OR 351 [LP-USA]
Harmonia mundi HMU 443 [LP-France]
Harmonia mundi "Musique d'abord" HMA 40 443 [Cass.-France]

Contents:

    Anon., School of Notre Dame:
  1. -28i 1. Clausula: Flos filius
    Anon.:
    -28i 2. Latin motet: Candida virginitas
    Anon., France:
    -28i 3. Motet: Quant revient et foille et flor

    2. Anon.:
  2. -29. Organum, Gradual for Easter Sunday, style of Leonin: Haec Dies
  3. -30. Clausula, Gradual for Easter Sunday: Haec Dies
  4. -31. Organum, Gradual for Easter Sunday, style of Leonin: Haec Dies
  5. -32a. French motet: Huic main au doz mois de mai
    -32b. 1 French motet: Quant voi revenir
    -32b. 2 Latin motet: O mitissima Virgo
    -32c. Latin motet: Deo confitemini
    -32d. French motet: Trop sovent me dueil
    -32e. Instrumental motet: In seculum
  6. -33a. Latin motet: Alle psallite cum luya
    -33b. French motet: On parole de batre

    7. Petrus de Cruce:
  7. -34. French motet: Aucun ont trouvé

    8. Anon.:
  8. -35. French motet from the time of Petrus de Cruce: Je cuidoie bien metre

    9. Adam de la Halle:
  9. -36a. Ballade: Li maus d'amer
    -36b. Rondeau: Tant con je vivrai
    -36c. Chanson: Diex soit

    10. Anon., 13th c.:
  10. -37. Kyrie trope (à 2): Rex virginum amator
  11. -38. Conductus (à 2): Roma gaudens jubilia
  12. -39. Conductus (à 3): Hac in anni janua
  13. -40a. Ductia: Danse Royale
    -40b. Estampie: Danse Royale
    -40c. Estampie: English Dance

    14. Anon.:
  14. -41a. Dance (à 2): Ductia
    -41b. Dance (à 2): Ductia

Playing time: 24' 04" + 24' 05" = 48' 09"

Performers:
Schola Cantorum Londiniensis & James Bowman (counter-tenor), Tom Sutcliffe (counter-tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Edgar Fleet (tenor), Ian Partridge (tenor), Nigel Rogers (tenor), Christopher Keyte (baritone), John Frost (bass), Geoffrey Shaw (bass), Joseph Castaldini (bassoon), Sarah Francis (oboe), Harold Lester (organ), Jane Ryan (viola da gamba), Stephen Shingles (viola)] - Edgar Fleet, dir. & Denis Stevens, musical dir.

Recording site and date:
Trinity Church, London, England [1969 or prior]

Re-issue: The Harmonia mundi edition was titled "Adam de la Halle et le XIIIe siècle - des motets aux danses médiévales". It was later re-issued in the collection "Musique d'abord" as HMA 443.

Compilation:
Orpheus (Musical Heritage Society) OR 349 / 351 History of European Music - Part I: Music of the Early Middle Ages.

Excerpts:
[1], [10], [12] Harmonia mundi HMU (3) 445 [3 LPs] Dictionnaire des Instruments anciens.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.): 215-63 (march 1977), 268-71(january 1982)
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):

Comments: Information from owned Harmonia mundi recording. The numbered items listed here are found in chapters 1 and 2, pp. 10-17 "Historical Anthology of Music", (HAM) by T. Davison and Willi Apel (2 vols., Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1949)
The content of this LP is not the same but similar to Pleiades P 249 Historical Anthology of Music: Thirteenth-Century Polyphony (Early Medieval Music)

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