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Thalamus puerpere; Quomodo cantabimus

Three-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Darmstadt: Hessische Landesbibliothek 2777, fol. 46 (text);
Florence: Biblioteca Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1, fol. 425v-426 (1/1) (conductus);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 146, fol. 32v (3/2);
Wolfenbüttel: Herzog-August-Bibliothek 628, fol. 168 (1/1) (conductus, incomplete).

Facsimiles

1. Le Roman de Fauvel, manuscrit inèdit de la Bibliothèque Nationale (français 146) reproduit par un procèdè photographique inaltèrable, facsimile edition by Pierre Aubry, Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1907, (Fauv).
2. GENNRICH, Friedrich. Abriss der Mensuralnotation des XIV und der ersten Hälfte des XV Jahrhunderts, Nieder-Modau: 1948. Musikwissenschaftliche Studienbibliothek 3-4, p. 33.
3. ROESNER, Edward H. Le Roman de Fauvel in the edition of Mesire Chaillou de Pesstain, New York: Broude Brothers, 1990.

Editions

The Roman de Fauvel; The Works of Philippe de Vitry; French Cycles of the Ordinarium Missae, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century I, p. 51.

Literature

1. SCHRADE, Leo. 'Philippe de Vitry: some new discoveries', Musical Quarterly, XLII (1956): 330-354.
2. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.

Recordings

Roman de Fauvel, Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1972): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-103 (GER).