Christian Worship Music c. 1300 - 1400 CE

Coptic

Syriac

Greek

Latin

Chronology

14C CE: Early [1290 - 1349] / Late [1350 - 1399]

Llibre vermell de Monserrat: O virgo splendens / Mariam matrem 

Composers

Philippe de Vitry (1291 - 1361 CE)
Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1300 - 1377 CE)
Johannes Ciconia (c. 1335/1373 - 1411/1412 CE)

MSS Scores

The "Worcester Fragments" [15 original leaves from MSS of polyphonic music in Latin recovered from late-medieval bindings of Worcester Cathedral Priory late 13C - early 14C CE; presently held at Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Lat. liturg. d. 20]

Fragments of Polyphonic Music/Motets [written in Latin and French in England at Bury St. Edmunds in the 14C CE; presently held in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. e Mus. 7]

Polyphonic compositions [11 pieces of Mass-settings and settings of Italian and French words, mostly fragmentary, by Machaut, Ciconia, Franciscus de Florentia, etc., in two bifolia from a late 14C CE Italian MS from the library of S. Giustina, Padua; presently held in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Canon. Pat. Lat. 229, fols. 53-56]

 

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