| | The Lucca Choirbook Lucca, Archivio di Stato, MS 238; Lucca, Archivio Arcivescovile, MS 97; Pisa, Archivio Arcivescovile, Bibliotheca Maffi, Cartella 1 1/III With and Introduction and Inventory by Reinhard Strohm. Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Music in Facsimiles, 2. Chicago, 2008. 26 x 36 cm, 208 pp. ISBN 9780226496399 $185 |
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than
forty
years
ago
in the state archives of Lucca, Italy, Reinhard
Strohm noticed that bindings on some of the books consisted of the
pages of a centuries-old music manuscript. In the following years,
Strohm worked with the archivists to remove these leaves and reassemble
as much as possible of the original manuscript, a major cultural
recovery now known as The Lucca Choirbook. The recovered volume
comprises what remains of a gigantic cathedral codex commissioned in
Bruges around 1463 and containing English, Franco-Flemish, and Italian
sacred music of the 15th century—including works by Dufay and Isaac.
This facsimile of the choirbook includes all the known leaves, ordered
according to their proper placement in the original codex. In the
introduction, Strohm tells the fascinating story of this choirbook,
identifying its early users and reconstructing its travel from Bruges
to Lucca. Linen. |
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