Codices Cambrai
The Codices Cambrai are two manuscripts on parchment that were written around 1430–1440 and contain choral works . They are in the possession of the Cathédrale Notre-Dame de Grâce de Cambrai in Cambrai under the call numbers CA 6 and CA 11 .
The manuscripts contain 3 hymns and 22 ordinarium sentences, including sentence pairs from Glorias and Credos , which are listed in separate categories. The authors are not named, but there are works by Guillaume Du Fay , Gilles Binchois , John Dunstable and Johannes Franchois de Gemblaco, among others .
The manuscript is in black and red mensural notation , with both the musical notation and the folia being unusually large so that they could still be read by a larger choir. The codices are considered to be the earliest example of the large-format chorale books customary later on .
literature
- The Beginnings of Polyphonic Choral Music . In: Papers read by members of the American Musicological Society at the annual meeting . 1946. p. 23 ff.
- Liane Curtis (Ed.): Cambrai Cathedral choirbook. Livre de choeur de la cathédrale de Cambrai. mid-15th c. Cambrai, Bibliothèque municipale MS 11. Alamire, Peer 1992, ISBN 90-6853-069-0 .
- Gerhard Dietel: Music history in data . dtv / Bärenreiter, Munich / Kassel 1994, ISBN 3-423-03321-5 / ISBN 3-7618-1174-8 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ F-CA MS D 6 , The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, accessed on May 14, 2018 (subscription access)
- ↑ F-CA MS D 11 , The Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, accessed on May 14, 2018 (subscription access)