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Four-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Torino: Biblioteca Nazionale s.J.II.9, fol. 76v-77 (4/2).

Editions

The Cypriot-French Repertory of the Manuscript Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale, J.II.9. II. Motets, edited by Richard H. Hoppin, Rome: American Institute of Musicology, 1961. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 21/II, p. 81.

Literature

NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.