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Doleo super te; Absolon, fili me

Three-voice anonymous troped chant

Sources

Cambridge: Gonville and Caius College 512/543, fol. 255v (3/2).

Facsimiles

Manuscripts of 14th Century English Polyphony: A Selection of Facsimiles, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison and Roger Wibberley, London: Stainer & Bell, 1982. Early English Church Music XXVI, plate 130.

Editions

1. HANDSCHIN, Jacques. 'The summer canon and its background, II', Musica Disciplina, V (1951), p. 89.
2. WIBBERLEY, Roger. English Polyphonic Music of the Late 13th and Early 14th Centuries: A Reconstruction, Transcription and Commentary, D.Phil. dissertation, University of Oxford (Keble), p. 302.
3. Motets of English Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1980. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XV, p. 118.

Literature

1. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 176, 241-242.

Recordings

Medieval English Music. Anonymes des XIVe et XVe Siècles, Hilliard Ensemble, directed by Paul Hillier (1983): Harmonia Mundi HM 1106.