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this is not a #chant #fragment but it not #chant in a pretty interesting way! also Tudor music is fun so here is a thread about a "Fayrfax" "O lux" (scare quotes on both counts) 1/
so this is a lil piece of instrumental polyphony, written (somewhat unusually) in score notation. the paper has some 6-line staffs, so it probably was meant for a few vocal lines and some lute tabs, but our guy is using the six-line staff for the top bc it has the most wiggles.2/ 
piece also has some little rhythmic games where you count 4 against 3. very popular hobby in sixteenth-century Britain: seeing if you can throw off your fellow musicians. 3/
