Music examples

   1.1 Gloria Christe tuo tibi personat in benedicto , twelfth responsory for matins of St Benedict in an eleventh-century antiphoner from St-Maur-des-Fossés (F-Pn fonds lat. 12044, fol. 63r)
   1.2 Alleluia. Ascendens Christus , in a thirteenth- or fourteenth-century Parisian gradual (F-Pn fonds lat. 1337, fol. 158v)
   1.3 Comparison of the Gregorian and Old Roman melodies for the antiphon O mors ero mors tua in F-Pn fonds lat. 12044, fol. 99r and I-RVat ASP B 79, fol. 102v
   2.1 Opening of Sancti Spiritus adsit nobis gratia (CH-SGs 383, p. 85)
   2.2 Sixth and seventh versicles of Sancti Spiritus adsit nobis gratia (CH-SGs 383, pp. 86–7)
   2.3 Opening of Templum cordis adornemus (F-Pn fonds lat. 14817, fol. 60r)
   3.1a Musica Enchiriadis , Chapter 15, Sit gloria Domini , diaphony at the fifth with octave doublings
   3.1b Guido of Arezzo, Micrologus , Chapter 19, Ipsi soli , flexible diaphony at the fourth
   3.2 Winchester organum, Alleluia. Ascendens Christus through first phrase of verse (principal voice, GB-Ob Bodley 775, fol. 79v; organal voice, GB-Ccc 473, fol. 167r)
   3.3a Ad organum faciendum , modes of organum I, II, III and V on incipit of Alleluia. Justus ut palma
   3.3b Ad organum faciendum , beginning of verse, Alleluia. Justus ut palma
   3.4a Aquitanian versus Per partum virginis , first couplet (GB-Lbl add. 36881, fol. 4r)
   3.4b Aquitanian versus Per partum virginis , last couplet and final verse (F-Pn fonds lat. 3549, fol. 151v)
   3.5a Consonance reduction, first phrase, Per partum virginis (see Example 3.4a)
   3.5b Consonance reduction, final melisma of Per partum virginis (see Example 3.4b)
   3.6 First line, Per partum virginis , two versions (B = F-Pn fonds lat. 3549, f. 150v; D = GB-Lbl add. 36881, fol. 4r)
   3.7a Codex Calixtinus, opening of matins responsory O adjutor (E-SC , fol. 217r/188r). Plainchant continuation, fol. 110v.
   3.7b Codex Calixtinus, first part of verse, responsory O adjutor (E-SC , fols. 217v/188v)
   4.1 Two-part conductus sine caudis, Virtus moritur , 1–20 (I-Fl Plut. 29.1, fols. 322r–322v)
   4.2 Two-part conductus cum caudis, Luget Rachel iterum , 1–68 (I-Fl Plut. 29.1, fols. 359v–360)
   4.3 Luget Rachel iterum . Text, translation and analysis
   4.4 Text of gradual Constitues eos. V. Pro patribus
   4.5 Two-part organum Constitues eos. V. Pro patribus , V. 1–65. (I-Fl Plut. 29.1, fols. 121v–122r)
   4.6a Two-part clausula [Immo]latus est , 1–39 (I-Fl Plut. 29.1, fol. 158r)
   4.6b Two-part motet Immolata paschali victima / Latus , 1–39 (I-Fl Plut. 29.1, fols. 411r–411v)
   4.7 Immolata paschali victima / Latus . Analysis of motetus text
   4.8a Two-part motet Amis vostre demoree / Pro patribus , 26–46 (F-MOf H. 196, fol. 249r)
   4.8b Monophonic song: Moniot d'Arras, Amours me fait renvoisier et chanter, refrain (F-Pn fonds fr. 844, fol. 118v)
   4.9 Three-part motet Aucun ont trouvé chant par usage / Lonctans me sui tenu / Annun[tiantes] , 1–16 (F-MOf H. 196, fols. 273r–274r)
   7.1 First part of Angelorum glorie / Pacem bonis (Benedicamus trope) (I-Ao 13, fol. 85r)
   7.2 First part of Credo Regis (cantus fractus) by Robert of Anjou (I-PAac F-09, fols. 140v–148)
   7.3 Refrain and three stanzas of the lauda Venite a laudare (I-CT 91, fol. 1r)
   8.1 Jacopo da Bologna, Non al so amante (F-Pn fonds italien 568, fols. 4v–5r)
   8.2 Nella foresta (caccia) (I-REas Mischiati Fragment, fol. Av)
   8.3 Gherardello da Firenze, I’ vo’ bene (I-Fl Palatino 87, fol. 29r)
   12.1 Can vei la lauzeta (‘When I see the lark’) by Bernart de Ventadorn (Hendrik van der Werf and Gerald A. Bond, eds., The Extant Troubadour Melodies: Transcriptions and Essays for Performers and Scholars [Rochester, NY: authors, 1984], pp. 62–71)
   12.2 Li noveaus tanz et mai et violette (‘The new season, May, the violet’) by the Châtelain de Couci (F-Pn fonds fr. 12615, fol. 155r)
   12.3 Jolietement m'en vois; jolietement (‘Happily I go; happily’) (The Montpellier Codex , ed. Hans Tischler, trans. Susan Stakel and Joel C. Relihan, 4 vols., Recent Researches in the Music of the Middle Ages and Early Renaissance 2–8 [Madison, WI: A-R Editions, 1978–85]; hereafter Mo ; Mo 260, vol. III, pp. 78–9)
   12.4a En mai, quant rosier sont flouri / L'autre jour, par un matin / Hé , 12.4b resvelle toi [Robin] (‘In May with rose bushes blooming / The other day, in morningtide / Hey, wake up Robin’) (Mo 269, vol. III, pp. 93–5)
   14.1 Anon., respond of Exsurge domine , a Gregorian gradual of ca800
   14.2 Hildegard of Bingen, beginning of In principio , 1140s
   14.3 Anon., sequence Fulgens preclara , ninth century
   14.4 Anon., versus Ortum floris , twelfth century
   14.5a Guido, modified parallel organum at the fourth below from Micrologus , ca1025
   14.5b Anon., reciting tone for a Christmas matins lesson, ca 1300
   14.5c Burgos, Monasterio de Las Huelgas 9, fol. 54v, from the sequence Victime paschali laudes
   14.5d London, British Library, Additional 16975, fol. 166, from the hymn Conditor alme siderum
   14.6a Anon., Nobilis humilis
   14.6b Anon., Laudes deo , troped lesson from Christmas midnight mass, mid fourteenth century
   14.6c Anon., Ave celi regina virginum
   14.7 Anon., clausula on Nostrum , early thirteenth century
   14.8 Guillaume de Machaut, refrain of virelai Se je souspir , mid fourteenth century
   14.9 Giovanni da Firenze, first text line of madrigal Nel meço , mid fourteenth century
   14.10 Anon., conductus Soli nitorem , early thirteenth century
   19.1 Philippe Royllart, end of first talea of motet, Rex Karole / Leticie, pacis / Virgo prius ac posterius