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New concordances for Dunstaple, Cooke and Binchois identified by Peter Wright in English fragments

Author Margaret Bent
Series Studi e Saggi
Nr. 60
Year 2024
ISBN 9788855433471

Price 7,00 €

Peter Wright’s premature death left several of his discoveries undeveloped. This chapter elaborates his identification of new concordances to known compositions in three unrelated early-fifteenth-century English fragments. The first two are camouflaged by notational change and lack their openings. US-PHf T658 contains part of a Credo by Dunstaple (no. 5 in Musica Britannica 8), otherwise known only from I-AOs 15; GB-Ccc 329 contains a fragment from the contratenor of a Gloria by Cooke in GB-Lbl 57950 (Old Hall); US-PHf T325 contains the beginning of the top part of the Te Deum by Binchois, adding to the conundrum of existing English associations of this composer’s music.