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Foligno, Archivio di Stato (olim Biblioteca Comunale, Sala A), frammenti musicali

A two page fragment from an early 15thC ms., first described by Pirrotta in 1968. It contains 3 incomplete Glorias, the third of which may in fact be 2 Superius from different Glorias. Style and concordances suggest an English origin.

INVENTORIES


  1. Répertoire international des sources musicales. BIV 3, 4. Handschriften mit mehrstimmiger Musik des 14., 15. und 16. Jahrhunderts, 2 vols, edited by Kurt von Fischer and Max Lütolf, G. Henle Verlag: Munich-Duisburg, 1972, pp. 896-897.

  2. Census-Catalogue of Manuscript Sources of Polyphonic Music 1400-1550, 5 vols, Neuhausen-Stuttgart: American Institute of Musicology, Hänssler Verlag, 1979-1988. Renaissance Manuscript Studies 1, Vol. I, p. 246.

  3. PALUMBO, Janet. 'The Foligno fragment: A reassessment of three polyphonic Glorias ca. 1400', Journal of the American Musicological Society XL/2 (1987): 169-209.


CONTENTS


  1. A-Av, Gloria (Gloria))

  2. B, Gloria (Gloria))

  3. Bv, Gloria (Gloria))


LITERATURE


  1. PIRROTTA, Nino. 'Church polyphony a propos of a new fragment at Foligno', Studies in Music History: Essays for Oliver Strunk, Princeton/New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1968, pp. 113-126.

  2. PALUMBO, J. 'The Foligno fragment: a reassessment of three polyphonic Glorias c.1400', Journal of the American Musicological Society, XL (1987):.

CONCORDANCES

1.Grottaferrata, Badia Greca, Biblioteca, collocazione provisoria 197 (1v-2, Gloria).
2.London, British Library, Cotton Titus D. XXIV (3v,2,3, Gloria)