This selection of thirteenth-century conductus for two and three voices is drawn from fascicles 6 and 7 of the manuscript Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, Pluteus 29.1 (F) and includes virtually all of the conductus in the other "Notre Dame" manuscripts, as well as several unica. The anthology is representative, in terms of both subject matter and musical style, of the conductus repertory as a whole. The musical settings range from short, strophic structures to works of gradiose proportions and from simple and direct to intricate and richly ornamented. The works include compositions by Perotin and poems by Walter of Chatillon and Philip the Chancellor.

Contents

Conductus a 3

Salvatoris hodie—Novus Adam

Relegentur ab area—Clausus in testa

Ortus summi

Ave maris stella

Verbum pater exhibuit

Celum non animum

Procurans odium

Veris ad imperia

Hac in anni ianua

Novus miles sequitur

Crucifigat omnes

Mundus a munditia

Gedeonis area

Stella serena

Excitatur caritas in Yerico

Conductus a 2

Veri vitis germine

Iam vetus littera

Condimentum nostre spei

Pater noster commiserans

Ave Maria

Quod promisit ab eterno

Legem dedit olim Deus

Virtutum thronus frangitur

Eterno serviet

Consequens antecedente

Alma redemptoris

Celorum porta

Dum sigillum

Nove geniture

Si Deus est animus

Sol sub nube latuit

Porta salutis ave

Deus pacis et dilectionis

Baculi sollempnia

Circa mundi vesperam

Reviews

Leonard Ellinwood, Notes, December 1966.