Millennium of Music
Music List # 03-04
Fragments
 
NOTE: This remarkable recording illustrates both eastern and western musical traditions preserved in framentary manuscript
form. The performance is by the Theatre of Voices directed by
Paul Hillier. The CD fragments is on the Harmonia Mundi label and is # HMU 907276.
 
Italy
 
--Anon.: Laude novella (13th c.).
--Anon.: Venite a laudare (13th c.).
--ANTONIO ZACHARA da TERAMO (fl. 1500): Credo Deus Deorum.
--MATTEO da PERUGIA (d.c.1418): Ave sancta mundi salus/Agnus Dei.
--Anon.: Benedicamus (14th c.).
 
Greece
 
--Anon.: Sanctus (14th c.).
--JOHN PLOUSIADENOS (c. 1429-1500): Communion Hymn.
--PLOUSIADENOS: Canon for the Council of Florence.
--MANUEL GAZES (1st half 15th c.): Enite ton Kychirion.
 
Russia
 
--Anon.: Dnes Hristos (Sticheron for Christmas)--(17th c.).
--Anon.: Blazhen muzh (from Vespers)--(17th c.).
--Anon.: Vozbrannoy voyevode (for the Mother of God) (17th c.).
--Anon.: The Cherubic Hymn.
 
England
 
--Anon.: Worldes blis ne last no throwe.
--Anon.: Beata viscera.
--Anon.: Salve sancta parens/Salve mater/Salve lux/Salve sine spina.
--Anon.: Salve virgo virginum.
--Anon.: Virgo Maria, patrem parit/O stella/Flos genuit/Virgo Maria.
--Anon.: Sanctus.
--Anon. Alleluia/Nativitas.
 
France
 
--PEROTINUS (c.1165-1220): Viderunt omnes/Notum fecit Dominus.