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Imperatrix regina; O Maria spes reorum
Three-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Apt: Cathédrale Sainte-Anne, Bibliothèque du Chapitre, 16bis, fol. 21v (3/2).

Editions

Le manuscrit de musique polyphonique du trésor d'Apt, edited by Amédée Gastoué, Paris: E. Droz, 1936. La société française de musicologie, series 1, vol. X.

Literature

1. HASSELMAN, Margaret P. The French Chanson of the Mid-Fourteenth Century, 2 vols., Ph.D. dissertation, University of California (Berkeley), pp. 177, 178-179.
2. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Zitate in französischen Liedsätzen der Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musica Disciplina, XXVI (1972), p. 60/n47.
3. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Fourteenth-century music with texts revealing performance practice', Studies in the Performance of Late Mediaeval Music, edited by Stanley Boorman, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 253-256.
4. GÜNTHER, Ursula. 'Sinnbezüge zwischen Text und Musik in Ars nova und Ars subtilior', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 229-268.
5. WILKINS, Nigel. 'The late mediaeval French lyric: with music and without', Musik und Text in der Mehrstimmigkeit des 14. und 15. Jahrhunderts, edited by U. Günther and L. Finscher, Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1984, pp. 155-174.
6. NEWES, Virginia. 'Writing, reading and memorizing: the transmission and resolution of retrograde canons from the 14th and early 15th centuries', Early Music, XVIII/2: 218-234, pp. 225, 226-227.

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