Early Medieval Chants from Nonantola, Part 4

This volume presents the sequences found in the surviving manuscripts from the north Italian abbey of San Silvestro di Nonantola. These sources, dating from the eleventh and twelfth centuries and notated in the distinctive style of Nonantola, preserve various historical strata of chant, including antiphons composed before the spread of the Gregorian repertory, the earliest diastematic readings of a number of Notker's sequences, and later east and west Frankish sequences and tropes. The edition includes an essay on the abbey at Nonantola, the development of north Italian chant, its style, and its relationship to repertories outside the region, along with transcriptions of the original Latin texts and English translations, critical notes listing variants, and commentary on individual pieces.

1. Christi hodiernae pangimini

2. Natus ante saecula

3. Hanc concordi

4. Iohannes Iesu Christo

5. Laus tibi Christe cui sapit

6. Haec sunt sacra festa

7. Laude mirandum

8. Festa Christi

9. Concentu parili

10. Virginis venerandae

11. Ecce vicit

12. Clara gaudia

13. Dic nobis

14. Eia recolamus

15. Sanctae crucis celebremus

16. Laus tibi Christe patris

17. Summi triumphum

18. Rex omnipotens

19. Sancti spiritus assit

20. Alme mundi rex

21. Pretiosa sollemnitas

22. Petre summe

23. Sancti merita Benedicti

24. Candida contio melos

25. Laurenti David

26. Congaudant angelorum chori

27. Felix valde

28. Summa stirpe

29. Alma fulgens crux praeclara

30. Summi regis

31. Clare sanctorum senatus

32. Omnes sancti seraphin

33. Sacerdotem Christi Martinum

34. Deus in tua virtute

35. Ad templi huius limina

36. Benedicta semper sancta

37. Stans a longe

38. Laeta mente

39. O quam mira

40. Almiflua caelorum

M. Huglo, Bulletin Codicologique 2000