TWO NEWLY DISCOVERED TENTH-CENTURY ORGANA
Giovanni Varelli
In the tenth century, when earliest chant books were being compiled in heart of Carolingian Empire and polyphonic music was entering realm theoretical speculation anonymous writings Musica enchiriadis Scolica , organa also notated for performance outside treatises. We would not know this, it a two-voice organum on an antiphon Saint Boniface written first decades century last page long-neglected manuscript, now British Library. A second antiphon, Rex caelestium terrestrium provides elements reconstruction further, ‘hidden’, organum. These newly identified shed light significant phase Western history, sole evidence from practice before great eleventh-century collection Winchester.
Early Music History|Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford)