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Civitas nusquam conditur; Cives celestis; Cibus esurientum

Three-voice anonymous troped chant

Sources

Oxford: New College Library 362, item XXVI, fol. 86v-87 (3/2).

Facsimiles

1. APFEL, Ernst. Studien zur Satztechnik der mittelalterlichen englischen Musik, 2 vols., Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1959. Abhandlungen der Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaft, Philosophisch-Historische Klasse 5, p. 42.
2. 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, plates 85-86.

Editions

1. The Treasury of English Church Music Vol. I: 1100-1545, edited by Denis Stevens, London: Blandford Press, 1965, no. 17.
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. 13.

Literature

1. HARRISON, Frank Ll. 'Ars nova in England: a new source', Musica Disciplina, XXI (1967), pp. 71-72., pp. 71-72.
2. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 289-290, 354.

Recordings

1. Music of the Middle Ages. Vol IV: English Polyphony of the 13th and early 14th Centuries, Russell Oberlin (C-T), Charles Bressler (T), Ensemble, directed by Saville Clark (1957): Expèriences Anonymes EA 0024.
2. Medieval English Music. Anonymes des XIVe et XVe Siècles, Hilliard Ensemble, directed by Paul Hillier (1983): Harmonia Mundi HM 1106.