Chant texts and cantus firmi

Includes polyphonic settings of chant texts and melodies (other than the Mass Ordinary)

• Stäblein, Bruno, ed. Hymnen I. Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, vol. 1. Kassel: Bärenreiter, 1956. M2 M48193.

  • Texts and melodies​

• Ward, Tom R. The Polyphonic Office Hymn, 1400-1520: A Descriptive Catalogue.  Renaissance Manuscript Studies 3. AIM. Neuhausen-Stuttgart: Hänssler-Verlag, 1980. ML 169.8 R46 no. 3

  • Descriptive catalogue of the polyphonic office hymn from the early Renaissance

  • All included settings are texts used in an Office as a hymn

• Kanazawa, Masakata. "Polyphonic Music for Vespers during the Fifteenth Century."  PhD diss., Harvard University, 1966.

  • A dissertation that investigates the various sources for polyphonic music for Vespers

• Kirsch, Winfried. Die Quellen der mehrstimmigen Magnificat-und Te Deum-Vertongen bis zur Mitte des 16. Jahrhundert. Tutzig: Schneider, 1966. ML128 M3 K6

  • Texts and melodies

  • Includes chronological and alphabetical source directories and thematic catalogues

• Spilsted, Gary Richard. "The Paleography and Musical Repertory of Codex Tridentinus 93."  PhD diss., Harvard University, 1982.  Appendix II, pp. 258-85: "A Catalogue of Polyphonic Introits (ca. 1400-ca. 1474)."  ML93 S75 1982a

  • Analysis of structure and contents of the manuscript
  • Alphabetical index of text incipits
  • Has an inventory

  • Contains a catalogue of polyphonic introits

• Schlager, Karlheinz, ed. Alleluia-Melodien. Monumenta Monodica Medii Aevi, vols. 7-8. Kassel; New York: Bärenreiter, 1968-1987. M2 M48193 Bd. 7-8

  • Texts and melodies
  • Extensive repertory of Mass Proper Alleluias.

  • Two volumes are organized as pre-1100 and post-1100

• Dangel-Hoffmann, Frohmut. Der Mehrstimmige Introitus in Quellen des 15. Jahrhunderts. Würzburger musikhistorische Beigträge, bd. 3. Tutzing: Hans Schneider, 1975. ML178 D36 1975

  • Contains thematic catalogue of introits

• Gerken, Robert E.  "Polyphonic Cycles of the Proper of the Mass."  PhD diss., University of Indiana, 1969.

  • Comparative and stylistic analysis of cycles
  • Also includes development of the polyphonic setting of the Proper of the Mass before 1300

  • Discant cantus firmus technique before 1450

• Kehrein, Joseph, ed. Lateinische Sequenzen des Mittelalters aus Handschriften und Drucken. Hildesheim: G. Olms, 1969. Photographic reproduction of the original edition, Mainz 1873. BV468 K4 1969

  • Texts only

  • Over 800 sequence texts organized by subject

• van Deusen, Nancy.  "Sequence Repertories: A Reappraisal."  Musica Disciplina 48 (1994): 107-11.

  • Introductory resource on the sequence as a genre

  • Includes patterns of its inclusion in manuscripts, values of researching sequences, and research directions

• Crocker, Richard L. The Early Medieval Sequence. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977.  ML3080 C87

  • Study of the early medieval (9th-century) sequence
  • Many modern transcriptions of texts and melodies

  • Appendix with list of manuscripts

• Misset, Eugène, and Pierre Aubry, eds. Les proses d’Adam de Saint Victor: texte et musique, précédées d’une étude critique. Paris: H. Welter, 1900. M2 M3 v.2 (Rare Collection, Music Library)

  • Online at University of Toronto

  • Complete edition with text and music (in original notation)

• Fassler, Margot. Gothic Song: Victorine Sequences and Augustinian Reform in Twelfth-Century Paris. Cambridge Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993. ML3027.8 P2 F4 1993

  • Contains an anthology with some melodies

  • Many texts in translation

• Wrangham, Digby S., ed. and trans. The Liturgical Poetry of Adam of St. Victor, from the Text of Gautier. With translations into English in the original metres and short explanatory notes. 3 vols.  London: Kegan Paul, Trench, & Co, 1881. PQ1412 A2 A28

  • Online at University of Toronto

  • Texts only

• McGill users only
• Open access resource
• Free resource
• In-library use
• Catalogue record