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The Foligno Fragment: A Reassessment of Three Polyphonic Glorias, ca. 1400

1987; University of California Press; Volume: 40; Issue: 2 Linguagem: Inglês

10.2307/831516

1547-3848

Janet Palumbo,

Medieval Literature and History

The first Gloria in the Foligno fragment is the earliest known example of a very small number of English-score pieces which entered the continental musical tradition through continental scribes. Focusing on FOL No. 1, which has concordances in Grottaferrata 197 and the English fragment Lbl XXIV, this article examines a point of contact between the continental Ordinary settings of ca. 1400 and the English repertory of Mass movements notated in score. Notational anomalies in the FOL and GR 197 sources of this Gloria are the result of the continental scribes' misreading of English trochaic semibreve pairs. The GR 197 scribe's efforts to "correct" the notation of this piece so that it conforms to the rules of French mensural practice are examined. Reconstruction of the layout of FOL clarifies the stylistic features of the two other incomplete Glorias which are unique to that source. The first of these two remaining Glorias is most closely related to the Apt-Ivrea group of Ordinary settings, and the second to the "hybrid" French-influenced northern Italian repertory represented in GR 197 by the compositions of Zacar and Ciconia.