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Gothic Voices, Christopher Page - The Earliest Songbook in England (c. 1200): Cambridge University Library MS Ff.I.17(1) (2000)

Gothic Voices, Christopher Page - The Earliest Songbook in England (c. 1200): Cambridge University Library MS Ff.I.17(1) (2000)
  • Title: The Earliest Songbook in England (c. 1200): Cambridge University Library MS Ff.I.17(1)
  • Year Of Release: 2000
  • Label: Hyperion
  • Genre: Classical
  • Quality: flac lossless (tracks) +Booklet
  • Total Time: 01:04:39
  • Total Size: 262 mb
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Tracklist

01. Verbum patris umanatur O O
02. In hoc ortus occidente
03. Regis cuius potentia
04. Ecce torpet probitas
05. Magno gaudens gaudio
06. Rerum Deus conditor
07. Cantu miro
08. Vacillantis trutine
09. In natali novi regis
10. Diastematica
11. Divino maduit
12. Virgo mater salvatoris
13. Tronus regis instauratur
14. Benedicamus Domino. Spiritus almi
15. Adulari nesciens
16. Agnus Dei. Qui pius est factus
17. Resonet, intonet
18. Ad honorem salvatoris (a 1)
19. Ad honorem salvatoris (a 2)
20. Argumenta faluntur fisice
21. Flos floriger
22. Licet eger cum egrotis
23. Ad cantus letitie

Probably copied around 1200, this songbook was discarded within a generation or so and used as flyleaves for another book. It was poorly written, decayed and damp, marred by stains and the ravages of time, but because the pages were being used for another purpose, some unknown benefactor preserved this wealth of music and poetry. The songbook then remained hidden for some six hundred years.

This recording is an almost complete anthology of songs from the booklet. It isn't known where it was copied, but it is believed to be an important religious foundation that housed by chance a few unusually keen singers. Many of the pieces are associated with major feasts of the liturgical year, including some which fall in the intensely festive period between Christmas and New Year's Day. The tone of many of the texts is therefore joyful.

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