sometimes fragments are bits of nice books that got repurposed, but sometimes they're really genuinely scrappy, like this lil guy fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-co…
doesn't seem to be anything on the back, and the chants are a bit of an odd combination, too. gonna choose to believe this was somebody's cue sheet.
v.thoughtful of this worm to munch alongside but not through the music
should say, the chants are just two responsories to go with readings from Judith in the summer. that part isn't that weird. doing it in this order happens only about 1/2 the time, but also not that weird. cantusindex.org/id/006492cantusindex.org/id/006488
what IS a little weird is that this chant isn't supposed to end here:
we SHOULD get a whole extra line, and then the responsory verse! like this:
instead we march right along to the next responsory, apparently. which should start something like this:
...except we haven't got the first words in our fragment. actually the little custos at the end of the line suggests we go straight on without stopping!!
so we have a bit of a Frankenchant, gluing together bits from two places to make a big long thing. not sure why one might do this. an experiment?
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We've got "maria", and then something with a y--probably "hymnus". So likely a minor responsory for Vespers or Lauds of a Marian feast, followed by the hymn--but we can only read the bottoms of the letters! fragmentarium.ms/view/page/F-f3…
one word looks like maybe it's "chorus". "chorus" is a pretty popular word in hymns it turns out.
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/
This guy in the lower left has 1) a piece of John 15:6-7 2) a tiny bit of the chant Gloria et honore ("...tuarum") cantusindex.org/id/g01260 3) a prayer, Apostolici reverentia.
All that checks out for some sort of vigil mass for an apostle. There's a little A where you'd expect the name to be, "beati A...", but A for Apostle or A for Andrew? Either way, probably a page at the end of its book, easy pickings for binding material. 3/