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Ave, miles celestis curie; Ave, rex patrone; Ave, rex [gentis]; Ave, rex

anonymous troped chant.

Sources

Oxford: Bodleian Library, e. Museo 7, fol. Vv-VI (4/2).

Facsimiles

Manuscripts of 14th Century English Polyphony: A Selection of Facsimiles, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison and Roger Wibberley, London: Stainer & Bell, 1982. Early English Church Music XXVI, plates 51-52.

Text Editions

1. BESSELER, Heinrich. Die Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance, Potsdam: Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft Athenaion, 1931.
2. REESE, Gustave. Music in the Middle Ages, New York: W. W. Norton, London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1940, p. 401.
3. BUKOFZER, Manfred. Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, New York: 1950, p. 30.
4. The Treasury of English Church Music Vol. I: 1100-1545, edited by Denis Stevens, London: Blandford Press, 1965, no. 15.
5. Motets of English Provenance, edited by Frank Ll. Harrison, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1980. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XV, p. 85.

Literature

1. SANDERS, Ernest. 'The mediaeval motet', Gattungen der Musik in Einzeldarstellungen: Gedenkschrift Leo Schrade, Erste Folge, Bern, Munich: 1971, pp. 497-573.
2. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 78-79.
3. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, pp. 37, 276.

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Last updated: Wednesday, 5 March 2003