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Ovet mundus letabundus; Ovet mundus letabundus

Four-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Oxford: Bodleian Library, Hatton 81, fol. 1v,44 (4/2).

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, pp. 52-56.
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 63-64.

Editions

1. Three Medieval Conductus for Christmas, edited by David Wulstan, Oxford: Oxenford Imprint [forthcoming, 1986].
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. 239.
3. English Music for Masses and Offices, Part 1, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Ernest H. Sanders and Peter M. Lefferts, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1983. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XVI, p. 224.

Literature

LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 281.

Recordings

Sumer Is Icumen In. Chants Mèdièvaux Anglais, Hilliard Ensemble, directed by Paul Hillier (1985): Harmonia Mundi HM 1154.