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Medieval Music Database

Worldes blisce; Benedicamus domino

Two-voice anonymous motet

Sources

Cambridge: Corpus Christi College 8, flyleaf, fol. 270 (2/1);
Oxford: Bodleian Library, Rawlinson G. 18, fol. 105v (song).

Facsimiles

WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, p. 99.

Editions

1. Medieval English Songs, edited by E. Dobson and Frank Ll. Harrison, London: 1979, no. 17.
2. English Music for Mass and Offices (II) and Music for Other Ceremonies, edited by Ernest H. Sanders, Frank Ll. Harrison and Peter M. Lefferts, Monaco: Editions de L'Oiseau-Lyre, 1986. Polyphonic Music of the Fourteenth Century XVII, p. 131.

Literature

1. PAGE, Christopher. 'A catalogue and bibliography of English song from its beginnings to c.1300', RMA Research Chronicle, 13 (1976): 67-83.
2. WILKINS, Nigel. Music in the Age of Chaucer, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1979. Chaucer Studies I, pp. 99-100.
3. LEFFERTS, Peter M. The Motet in England in the Fourteenth Century, Ann Arbor: UMI Research Press, 1986, p. 191.

Recordings

1. Music of the Middle Ages. Vol IV: English Polyphony of the 13th and early 14th Centuries, Russell Oberlin (C-T), Charles Bressler (T), Ensemble, directed by Saville Clark (1957): Expériences Anonymes EA 0024.
2. Sumer Is Icumen In. Chants Médiévaux Anglais, Hilliard Ensemble, directed by Paul Hillier (1985): Harmonia Mundi HM 1154.


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