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.
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) |
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| 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 |
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| Contents | Contains 1 composition, 1 is anonymous. |
General Description
Notation
black mensural notation
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
Foliation
No information on foliation
Surface
parchment
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.
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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. 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