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Doctorum principem super ethera; Melodia suavissima cantemus; Vir mitis

Four-voice motet by Johannes Ciconia

Sources

Bologna: Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Ms Q 15, fol. 270v-271 (4/2).

Editions

1. CLERCX, Suzanne. 'Johannes Ciconia, thèoricien', Annales musicologiques: moyen-âge et renaissance, III (1955), p. 67.
2. CLERCX, Suzanne. Johannes Ciconia: Un musicien liègois et son temps, 2 vols., Brussels: Palais des Acadèmies, 1960, Vol. II, p. 187.
3. BROWN, S. E. Jr. The Motets of Ciconia, Dunstable and Dufay, Ph.D. dissertation, Indiana University: 1962, p. 351.
4. COX, B. W. The Motets of Manuscript Bologna, Civico Museo Bibliografico Musicale, Q 15, Ph.D. dissertation, North Texas State University: 1977, p. 614.
5. The Works of Johannes Ciconia, edited by Margaret Bent and Anne Hallmark, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1985. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXIV, p. 89.

Literature

1. KORTE, W. Studien zur Geschichte der Musik in Italien im ersten Viertel des 15. Jahrhunderts, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1933. Münsterische Beiträge zur Musikwissenschaft VI, pp. 37-38.
2. FICKER, Rudolf von. 'The transition on the continent', [chapter 5 of] The New Oxford History of Music. III. Ars Nova and the Renaissance, edited by Dom Anselm Hughes and Gerald Abraham, London: Oxford University Press, 1960, pp. 154-155.
3. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
4. BESSELER, Heinrich and Peter GÜLKE. Schriftbild der mehrstimmigen Musik, Leipzig: Deutscher Verlag für Musik, 1973. Musikgeschichte in Bildern, vol. 3, part 5, pp. 78-79.
5. REANEY, Gilbert. 'The part played by instruments in the music of Guillaume de Machaut', Studi Musicali, VI (1977), p. 4., p. 4.
6. NEWES, Virginia E. 'Imitation in the Ars nova and Ars subtilior', Revue belge de musicologie, XXXI (1977): 38-59.
7. NEWES, Virginia E. 'The relationship of text to imitative technique in 14th century polyphony', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 121-154.
8. STROHM, Reinhard. The rise of European music, 1380-1400, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993, p. 97.

Recordings

1. The Italian Trecento, Columbia University Collegium Musicum, directed by Richard Taruskin: Collegium Stereo JE 105.
2. Geistliche Musik circa 1400, Capella Antiqua München, directed by Konrad Ruhland (1967): Telefunken AW6 41221 (SAWT 9505) (GER).
3. Johannes Ciconia, Las Huelgas Ensemble, directed by Paul van Nevel (1980): Musique en Wallonie 80040-44 (set).