Music of the Middle Ages

Music of the Middle Ages
The Western Wind / Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier
Schirmer Books ISBN 0-02-872953-6 [2 Cassettes]

Content (see also Comments):

    Cassette I

    Plainchant

    Anon.
  1. Gradual: Viderunt omnes

    2. Anon.
  2. Introit: Resurrexi (complete chant)
  3. Introit: Resurrexi (melodic trope of atiphon)
  4. Introit: Resurrexi (textual-melodic trope of antiphon)

    5. Anon.
  5. Alleluia: Angelus domini
    Respondens

    6. Anon.
  6. Kyrie Clemens Rector (version of the modern Graduale Romanum)
  7. Kyrie Clemens Rector (texted version from the eleventh century

    8. Anon.
  8. Sequence Regnantem sempiterna

    9. Early Organum

    Anon.
  9. Alleluia: Angelus domini
    Respondens

    10. Free Organum

    Anon.
  10. Alleluia: Justus ut palma

    11. Anon.
  11. Alleluia: Angelus Domini

    12. Aquitanian Sacred Music

    Anon.
  12. Congaudeat ecclesia (monophonic versus)

    13. Anon.
  13. Plebs domini (monophonic versus)

    14. Anon.
  14. Letabundi jubilemus (monophonic versus)

    15. Anon.
  15. Novum festum celebremus (monophonic versus)
  16. Novum festum celebremus (polyphonic versus)

    17. Anon.
  17. Orienti oriens (polyphonic versus)

    18. Aquitanian secular music

    Arnaut Daniel
  18. Lo ferm voler

    19. Liber Sancti Jacobi

    Magister Goslenus, Codex Calixtinus (Liber Sancti Jacobi)
  19. Alleluia: Vocavit Jhesus Jacobum

    20. Parisian Sacred Music

    Anon.
  20. Alleluia: Adorabo ad templum (organum duplum, comparative version)

    21. Anon.
  21. Veste nuptiali (monophpnic conductus simplex)

    22. Anon.
  22. O curas hominum (monophonic conductus cum cauda)

    23. Anon.
  23. Ver pacis aperit (two-voicve conductus simplex)

    24. Anon.
  24. A solis ortus cardine (three-voice conductus cum cauda)

    25. Cassette II

    The Early Motet

    Anon.
  25. O Maria, maris stella - Veritatem (single-texted three voices motet)

    26. Anon.
  26. O Maria virgo - O Maria,, maris stella - Veritatem (double motet)

    27. Anon.
  27. Quant je parti -Tuo (two-voice motet)

    28. Anon.
  28. En non Diu - Quant voi - Eius in oriente (double motet)

    29. Anon.
  29. Trop sovent - Brunete - In secukum (double motet)

    30. The Continental Motet in the Late Thirteenth Century

    Petrus de Cruce
  30. J'ai mis - Je n'en puis - Puerorum (Franconian motet)

    31. Anon.
  31. Amours qui - Solem justicie - Solem (Petronian motet)

    32. The English Motet

    W. de Wycombe (?)
  32. Alleluya: Christo iubilemus - Alleluya
    Die sanctificatus (troped chant setting)

    33. Anon.
  33. Ave miles celestis celestis curie - Ave rex (voice-exchange motet)

    34. Anon.
  34. Rosa delectabilis - [Regali ex progenie] Regalis exoritur (duet motet)

    35. The continental motet in the late 14th century

    Guillaume de Machaut:
  35. Quant en moy / Amour et biauté (isorhythmic motet)
  36. De bon espoir - Puis que la douce - Speravi (isorhythmic motet)

    37. The Polyphonic Song in France

    Guillaume de Machaut:
  37. Dame, vostre doulze viaire (virelai)
  38. Se je souspir (virelai)
  39. Puis qu'en oubli (rondeau)
  40. Quant je ne voy (rondeau)
  41. Amours me fait desirer (ballade)
  42. De toutes flours (ballade)

    43. Jacob Senleches
  43. Fuions de ci (ballad in mannerist style)

    44. The polyphonic song in Italy

    Giovanni da Firenze
  44. Apress' un fiume (madrigal)
  45. Con brachi assai (caccia)

    46. Francesco Landini
  46. Cara mie donna (ballata)

Playing time: ??' ??" + 67' 12"

Performers: The Western Wind / Hilliard Ensemble [John Potter (tenor, organ), David James (counter-tenor), Roger Covey-Crump (tenor), Mark Padmore (tenor), Paul Hillier (bass)] - Paul Hillier, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [01/1990]

Excerpts:
Cassette II: Conifer Records - The Sunday Times "The Music Collection" ST 4 Medieval Music

Similar approach to music (book / LP, Cassette or CD):

a) The Oxford Anthology of Music: Medieval Music
b) The History of Music in Sound - Oxford University Press
c) Music in Medieval Europe
Studio der frühen Music & Early Music Institute - Thomas Binkley, dir.
Focus 883-4S (2 Cassettes)

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Comments: Information from the Anthology. These two cassettes were recorded to accompany the book by David Fenwick Wilson: "Music of the Middle Ages: An Anthology for Performance and Study; published by Schirmer Books (A Division of Macmillan Inc.) - ISBN 0-02-872952-8. The two cassettes includes 46 music examples, specially commissioned from the Hilliard Ensemble and Western Wind.

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