The Lucca choirbook : Lucca, Archivio di Stato, Ms 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, Ms 97; Pisa, Archivio Arcivescovile, Biblioteca Maffi, cartella 11/III

Author(s)

• Strohm, Reinhard

Bibliographic Information

The Lucca choirbook : Lucca, Archivio di Stato, Ms 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, Ms 97; Pisa, Archivio Arcivescovile, Biblioteca Maffi, cartella 11/III

edited and with an introduction and inventory by Reinhard Strohm

（Late medieval and early Renaissance music in facsimile : a series / edited by Margaret Bent & John Nádas, v. 2）

University of Chicago Press, c2008

Printed Music（Other）

Note

Reconstruction of the Lucca choirbook, principally from Lucca, Archivio di Stato, Ms 238, with small additions from Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, Ms 97 and Pisa, Archivio Arcivescovile, Biblioteca Maffi, cartella 11/III

Fragments of mass ordinary settings, motets, magnificats, and hymns

Words chiefly in Latin, some in French and Italian

Includes works by Domarto, Dufay, Frye, Heyns, Isaac, Martini, Peragulfus, Plummer, Puillois, Stone, and Tik

Facsimilie foliated in 60 leaves

Critical commentary in English

Includes bibliographical references (p. 41-42) and indexes

Description and Table of Contents

Description

More than forty years ago in the state archives of Lucca, Italy, Reinhard Strohm noticed that bindings on some of the books consisted of the pages of a centuries-old music manuscript. In the following years, Strohm worked with the archivists to remove these leaves and reassemble as much as possible of the original manuscript, a major cultural recovery now known as "The Lucca Choirbook." The recovered volume comprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in Bruges about 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian sacred music of the fifteenth century - including works by the celebrated composers Guillaume Du Fay and Henricus Isaac. This facsimile of the choirbook includes all the known leaves, ordered according to their proper placement in the original codex. In the introduction, Strohm tells the fascinating story of this choirbook, identifying its early users and reconstructing its travel from Bruges to Lucca.

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Details

• NCID: BA89875757
• ISBN:
  • 9780226496399
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: latfreita
• Place of Publication: Chicago
• Pages/Volumes: 1 choir book (x, 209 p.)
• Size: 37 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : M1579
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Masses -- Excerpts
  • LCSH : Motets -- Excerpts
  • LCSH : Magnificat (Music)
  • LCSH : Hymns
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA2770631X