I-GDLcc MS 2

Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore, Guardiagrele, Abruzzo

Gradual with added polyphony: 14th century; polyphony early 15th century

Archive Chiesa di Santa Maria Maggiore, Guardiagrele, Abruzzo (I-GDLcc)
Shelfmark MS 2
Image Availability DIAMM does not have images of this source.
Surface Parchment
Numbering System Foliation
Format portrait
Measurements 550 x 420 mm
Other Identifiers
  • CCM: GuardSM 2
  • olim (Former shelfmark): 1b
Notations
  • black full mensural
Relationships
Provenance
Contents Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous.
General Description

Vol. II of a 3-volume Gradual containing mostly monophonic music; the single polyphonic piece (ff. 53-54') is an anonymous credo. Probably copied and used at Guardiagrele, in central Italy. This manuscript and GuardSM 1c are the earliest known sources of polyphonic music from this region.

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Notation

black mensural notation

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Date

Copying of the liturgical books in this library took place between 1333 and the first decade of the 15th century; the polyphony dates from the early 15th century

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Foliation

No information on foliation

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Surface

parchment

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Census Catalogue of Music Description

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1 Credo

Anonymous

59 parchment folios, 530 x 420. No information on foliation. The manuscript is Vol. II of a 3-volume Gradual containing mostly monophonic music; the polyphonic piece (ff. 53-54') is in black mensural notation.

Copying of the liturgical books in this library took place between 1333 and the first decade of the 15th century; the polyphony dates from the early 15th century. Probably copied and used at Guardiagrele, in central Italy. This manuscript and GuardSM 1c are the earliest known sources of polyphonic music from this region.

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

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Folio / Pages Composition / Item title Source attribution Composers (? Uncertain)
53–54v Credo [Patrem omnipotentem] - Anonymous

Credo [Patrem omnipotentem]

Anonymous
Appears on: 53–54v
Genres: Credo (patrem omnipotentem), Mass Ordinary
Number of voices: 2
Voice: [no designation]
Languages: Latin
Voice Text: Patrem omnipotentem
General Note

Gregorian melody of the Credo Cardinale, with an added second voice (only preserved fragmentarily). A second voice is also preserved in Siena Bib. Com. H.I.10 (321v-323) & Vatican Urb. lat. 1419 (84v-85) but all 3 second voices are different from each other.
Composer Compositions
Anonymous
Composition Composers (? Uncertain) Folios / Pages
Credo [Patrem omnipotentem] Anonymous 53–54v

Set: MSS 2 - 3

Type: Partbooks

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I-GDLcc MS 2

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I-GDLcc MS 3

‡ denotes primary source study

Cuthbert, Michael Scott. 2006. Trecento fragments and Polyphony beyond the codex. Harvard University, Ph.D.

Di Bacco, Giuliano, and John Nadas. 1998. The Papal Chapels and Italian Sources of Polyphony during the Great Schism. Papal Music and Musicians in Late Medieval and Renaissance Rome, edited by Giuliano Di Bacco and John Nadas, 44-92. Oxford: Clarendon Press.

Hamm, Charles E, and Herbert Kellman (editors). 1979-1988. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550. Renaissance Manuscript Studies, vol. 1. 5 vols. Neuhausen nr. Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag. Pages: I, 258.

Fischer, Kurt von, and Franco Alberto Gallo (editors). 1976. Italian Sacred Music (I). Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century, vol. 12.  Monaco: Éditions de l'Oiseau-Lyre. Pages: XII, 195.

‡ Ziino, Agostino. 1973. Ancora sulle Composizioni Polifoniche di Guardiagrele: Aggiunte e Precisazioni. Revista Italiana di Musicologia, 8: 9-13.

‡ Cattin, Giulio, Oscar Mischiati, and Agostino Ziino. 1972. Composizioni Polifoniche del Primo Quattrocento nei Libri Corali di Guardiagrele. Rivista Italiana di Musicologia, 7: 153-81. Pages: (reproductions of the polyphony between pp.158-9; transcription, comparing Siena & Vatican second voices, pp.174-179. Notes: description; facsimile (partial); contents list; discussion; transcriptions.

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James Burke, 2015

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. General Description; Notation Note; Date Note; Surface Note

Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550

Monday, 23 January, 2017

NB: Migrated from old site. Credit for notes may not be completely accurate. Census Catalogue of Music Description