March 14, 2019

 


1:15 pm, Thursday, March 14, 2019
Midtown Concerts
Episcopal Church of St. Bartholomew
Park Avenue at East 50th Street
New York, NY

Number Mania:
Hidden Structures in Medieval and Renaissance Polyphony



THE EARLIEST POLYPHONY

Hec dies (Gregorian chant)
Hec dies (clausula)
Hec dies (clausula)
Hec dies (clausula)
Dat superis/Hec dies (motet)
Hec dies leticie/Hec dies (motet)

Paris, Bibl. nat. 1112 (ca. 1250)
Florence, Plut. 29.1 (F) (ca. 1245)
Wolfenbuttel 628 (W1) (ca. 1240)
F
Wolfenbuttel, 1099 (W2) (ca. 1250)
W2

SIX THIRTEENTH-CENTURY MOTETS

O Maria virgo davitica/O Maria, maris/VERITATEM
Alma redemptoris mater (Gregorian chant)
Ave, regina/Alma redemptoris/ALMA
Ave Maris Stella (Gregorian chant)
Ave beatissima/Ave Maria/AVE MARIS STELLA
Alle psallite cum luya/[PES] ALLELUYA
Petrum cephas/Petrus pastor/PETRE
Puellare gremium/Purissima mater/[PES]

Montepellier H196 (Mo) (ca. 1300)
Sarum Antiphon (ca. 1260)
Las Huelgas Codex (ca. 1325)
Mo
Mo
Mo
Oxford, Bod. Lib., E Museo 7 (ca. 1375)
Worcester Cathedral, MS Add. 68 (ca. 1280)

A THIRTEENTH-CENTURY RONDELLUS

Perspice, Christicola (=Sumer is acumen in)

Brit. Lib., Harley 978 (ca. 1263)

TWO FOURTEENTH-CENTURY WORKS

Tuba sacre/In arboris/VIRGO SUM
Ite, missa est from Messe de Nostre Dame

Philippe de Vitry (1291-1361)
Guillaume de Machaut (ca. 1300-1377)

THREE EARLY FIFTEENTH-CENTURY WORKS

Mon chier Amy
Apostolo glorioso/Cum tua doctrina/ANDREAS
Gloria 		Guillaume Du Fay (ca. 1397-1474)
Guillaume Du Fay
Johannes Ciconia (ca. 1375-1412)

 

Pomerium

Kristina Boerger, Amber Evans, Chloe Holgate, Dominique Surh- sopranos
Nathaniel Adams, Emerson Sieverts, Michael Steinberger, Christopher Preston Thompson – tenors

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