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Quare fremuerunt
Two-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Florence: Biblioteca Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1, fol. 244v-245 (3/3) (conductus);
Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale, fonds français 146, fol. 1 (2/1).

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. 4 (diplomatic).
2. Le Roman de Fauvel, manuscrit inédit de la Bibliothèque Nationale (français 146) reproduit par un procédé photographique inaltérable, facsimile edition by Pierre Aubry, Paris: Librairie Paul Geuthner, 1907, (Fauv).
3. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, p. 326.
4. Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, edited by Friedrich Blume, 16 vols., Kassel and Basel: Bärenreiter, 1949 ff, plate 60.
5. ROESNER, Edward H. Le Roman de Fauvel in the edition of Mesire Chaillou de Pesstain, New York: Broude Brothers, 1990.

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. 8.
2. The Roman de Fauvel; The Works of Philippe de Vitry; French Cycles of the Ordinarium Missae, edited by Leo Schrade, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1956. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century I, p. 4.

Literature

1. APEL, Willi. The Notation of Polyphonic Music 900-1600, Cambridge/Massachusetts: The Medieval Academy of America, 1942, pp. 325-327, 334.
2. THIBAULT, Geneviève. 'Chanson', Die Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart, II (1952): 1034-1046.
3. REANEY, Gilbert. 'John Dunstable and late medieval music in England', The Score, V (1953), p. 29.
4. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.

Recordings

1. Roman de Fauvel, Early Music Studio, directed by Thomas Binkley (1972): EMI-Reflexe 1C063-30-103 (GER).
2. Le Roman de Fauvel, 1310-1316, Clemencic Consort, directed by Rene Clemencic (1975): Harmonia Mundi HMF 994 (FRA).

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Last updated: Wednesday, 19 March 2003