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POLYPHONIC ARRANGEMENTS OF PROPRIUM AND ORDINARIUM MISSAE FROM THE BRANIEWO MANUSCRIPT (UPPSU 76F) IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN TRADITION

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Leszczynska A.

Musicology Today

2004

vol. 1

64-76

The article examines three handwritten partbooks, formerly property of the Braniewo Jesuit Collegium, taken in 1626 as a war trophy with other manuscripts and prints by the invading Swedes to Stockholm and held in the University Library of Uppsala. In comparison to the majority of polyphonic arrangements of 'proprium missae', typical of the European tradition, which are characterized by clear and logical system corresponding to the liturgical year, the manuscript 'UppsU 76f' seems chaotic, with several irregularities. The analysis of its features leads the authoress to the hypothesis that it could have been created in a Protestant-influenced region. Some similarities are found with 'Choralis Constantinus' by Heinrich Isaac and with the oldest polyphonic manuscript of the Wawel chapel, dated by Mirosław Perz and Elzbieta Zwolinska as of mid-16th century. Although none of the compositions in the Braniewo manuscript bears its composer's name, in some instances concordances were found. The authoress identifies further works and provides other information on the collection, such as dating, hypotheses concerning its origin and the reasons of its importance for Polish and European culture.

THE PARTS OF MASS ORDINARY CALLED 'SOCIORUM' IN THE SPECIÁLNIK CODEX: A STUDY OF LATE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY POLYPHONY IN BOHEMIA

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Mrackova L.

2004

vol. 49

issue 2(193)

89-110

The Codex Speciálnik (c. 1485-1500), an important European music manuscript of its time, contains about 200 pieces of fifteenth-century polyphony. Its repertory includes contemporary music written by leading composers of the second half of the fifteenth century (from Pullois to early works of Josquin and his contemporaries), as well as pieces of Central European origin. A group of compositions called 'sociorum' seems to represent a specific local repertory written in low register (for male voices only) and can be found exclusively in the Codex Speciálnik (except for two compositions with concordances in sixteenth-century Bohemian and German sources). The parts of mass ordinary 'sociorum' can be divided into two groups: 1) compositions with an identified model and 2) free compositions. The incomplete cycle No. 1 is built on the chanson 'Corps digne-Dieu quel marriage' by Busnois and a song-like Bohemian ,Patrem'; the cantus firmus of the pair No. 47 paraphrases the antiphon 'O admirabile commercium' and the pair No. 197 is built on chants 'Credo I' and 'Sanctus I' organically incorporated into the polyphonic structure. The form of the free-composition pieces is based on the structure of their texts, usually following its short phrases. The compositional style of the 'sociorum' pieces can be characterized by the prevailing 'major' tonality, frequent use of cadences, short imitations, sequences, ostinati and homophony. The repertory of the Codex Speciálnik is witness to the knowledge of imported international repertory in one of the Bohemian cultural centres of the time (possibly Prague) at the end of the fifteenth century. It also reflects the ways in which older musical traditions were cultivated and the local contemporary compositional style developed, a style which it would be useful to study in the context of similar compositions of Central European origin.

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POLYPHONIC ARRANGEMENTS OF PROPRIUM AND ORDINARIUM MISSAE FROM THE BRANIEWO MANUSCRIPT (UPPSU 76F) IN THE CONTEXT OF EUROPEAN TRADITION

THE PARTS OF MASS ORDINARY CALLED 'SOCIORUM' IN THE SPECIÁLNIK CODEX: A STUDY OF LATE FIFTEENTH-CENTURY POLYPHONY IN BOHEMIA