Everist, Mark (ed.) (1988) French thirteenth-century polyphony in the British Library: a facsimile edition of the manuscripts Additional 30091 and Egerton 2615 (ff.79-94v) , London, UK. Plainsong and Mediaeval Music Society, 71pp.
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Published date: 1988
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Review in Early Music (1989):
The Plainsong and Mediaeval Music
Society is far too modest I wish that
the blank pages at the end of this
volume had been used to provide a list
of publications of this distinguished
organisation, which celebrated its hundredth
anniversary in 1988 They are
not many, perhaps, but many are
unique and remarkable, testifying to
the erudition and enthusiasm of
members and the response of an
appreciative public Only two years
after its foundation, the Society issued
(in a limited edition) its first synthesis
of text and facsimile the Musical
Notation of the Middle Ages, and in 1894
the splendidly produced Graduate sansbunense
edited by W H Frere Many
comparable volumes followed, as well
as pioneering editions of early English
Polyphony
This fine tradition continues with a
much-needed facsimile of two important
sources of French 13th-century
polyphony in the British Library
Additional 30091 and Egerton 2615
The extremely detailed and helpful
commentaries are the work of Dr Mark
Everist, whose doctoral dissertation
(Oxford 1985) also deals with early
French polyphony The facsimiles are
of exceptional clarity and elegance, as
is the typesetting of Adrian Bassett and
Catherine Harbor, the present secretary
of the PMMS
Although strictly speaking one cannot
review a facsimile, I should like to
say that connoisseurs and performers
of medieval music would do well to
acquire so essential a study of basic
repertoire, for they will learn much
from the clear exposition of notation,
palaeography, provenance and concordances
which the editor has provided.
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french, polyphony, british, library, thirteenth, century, plainsong, mediaeval, everist
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