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Benedicamus Domino

by Paolo da Firenze

Sources

Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds italien 568, fol. 138 (3/3).

Facsimiles

1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965], p. 81.
2. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 379.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966), plate V, Abb.22.

Editions

1. WOLF, Johannes. Geschichte der Mensural-Notation von 1250-1460 nach den theoretischen und praktischen Quellen, 3 vols., Leipzig: Breitkopf & Härtel, 1904. [reprinted Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1965], Vol. III, p. 116.
2. Les monuments de l'Ars nova, edited by Guillaume de Van, Paris: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1938, p. 18.
3. TERMINI, Francesco. Don Paolo, unpublished thesis, University of Southern California: 1956, p. 135.
4. Italian Sacred Music, edited by Kurt von Fischer and F. A. Gallo, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1976. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XII, p. 105.
5. French Secular Music. Rondeaux and Miscellaneous Pieces, edited by Gordon K. Greene, with literary texts by Terence Scully, Monaco: Editions de Oiseau-Lyre, 1989. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XXII, p. 105.
6. The Music of Fourteenth-Century Italy, edited by Nino Pirrotta and Ursula Günther, Rome: American Institute of Musicology. Corpus Mensurabilis Musicae 8/VI. [forthcoming]

Literature

1. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, pp. 378-380.
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Die "anonymen" Kompositionen des Ms. Paris BN, fonds ital, 568 (Pit)', Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, XXIII (1966), pp. 85-86.
3. FISCHER, Kurt von. 'Musica e società nel Trecento italiano', L'Ars nova italiana del Trecento III: Certaldo 1969, 1970, p. 21.

Recordings

1. Music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Vol. I. 13th - 15th Centuries, Syntagma Musicum Ensemble, directed by Kees Otten: 2-HMV HQS 1195/6.
2. The Seraphim Guide to Renaissance Music, Syntagma Musicum of Amsterdam, directed by Kees Otten (1969): Seraphim SIC-6052 (set 3) (USA).
3. Das Fest des Pierbaldo (Le Festin de Pierbaldo) nach dem Sonettenkranz "Mundus Pacidus" des Simon d'Orvieto, Les Mènestrels - Wiener Ensemble für alte Musik (1973): Musical Heritage Society MHS 3289.
4. Italian and French Music of the 14th - 15th Centuries, 'Pro anima' Ensemble, Marina Filippova and Veronica Atnazhev, directed by Gennadi Golstein (1983): Melodia C10 20219 002 (USSR).

Text

Benedicamus domino