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Balaam de quo vaticinans; [Balaam]

monophonic anonymous troped chant

Sources

Montpellier: Facultè de Mèdecine H 196, fol. 392v-393v,393v-394v (3/2);
Oxford: New College Library 362, item XXVI, fol. 86 (1/1).

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 84 (Onc362).

Editions

1. The Treasury of English Church Music Vol. I: 1100-1545, edited by Denis Stevens, London: Blandford Press, 1965, p. 5.
2. Motets of English Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1980. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XV, p. 8.

Literature

1. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
2. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 80-81.
3. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 33-34, 288-289.

Recordings

The Worcester Fragments, Accademia Monteverdiana, directed by Denis Stevens: Nonesuch H-71308.