WHO ‘MADE’ THE MAGNUS LIBER?
Edward H. Roesner
Without question, one of the most familiar texts to students medieval music is often-cited passage in treatise Anonymous IV that offers an account historical development Notre-Dame tradition. I introduce my own discussion ‘making’ Parisian liber organi with a brief consideration this famous text.The Latin is, minor adjustments, F. Reckow, Der Musiktraktat des Anonymus 4, 2 vols. (Beihefte zum Archiv für Musikwissenschaft, 4-5; Wiesbaden, 1967), i, pp. 45-6. The translation own, but it has benefited from suggestions by Leofranc Holford-Strevens (most important among them, readings ‘optimus organista’ and discantor’ as ‘an excellent discantor’).
Early Music History