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The music manuscript London, British Library, Egerton 274 (LoB; trouvère chansonnier F) is most well-known for containing the largest notated collection of songs by the early thirteenth-century theologian Philip the Chancellor. The twenty-eight Latin songs attributed to Philip in the first fascicle of the manuscript are written in a variety of poetic and musical forms, including Latin lais and conducti for one and two voices, several monophonic rondelli, several two-voice motets, and one double motet. The manuscript, however, also contains many other songs and poems. The other original fascicles of the manuscript contain mass chants (Kyries, Glorias, and sequences), a few unica Easter songs, and eighteen trouvère chansons. Later additions to the manuscript include two Latin devotional poems (without music), several palimpsests of liturgical chants, and a fascicle of processional chants. The diversity of this manuscript's contents—a mixture of liturgical, para-liturgical, devotional, and courtly songs—is its most intriguing feature. This study of the manuscript considers the purpose that such a unique songbook would have served for its owner during the thirteenth-century. A prelimin

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Author

Pamela Kay Whitcomb

Publisher

The University of Texas at Austin

Published

2000

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction