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Universi Populi - Vocal Music of the Middle Ages                      | Zig Zag Territoires ZZT060601

Universi Populi - Vocal Music of the Middle Ages

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Label: Zig Zag Territoires

Cat No: ZZT060601

Barcode: 3760009291140

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Vocal/Choral

Release Date: 16th October 2006

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Contents

Artists

Ensemble Discantus

Conductor

Brigitte Lesne

Artists

Ensemble Discantus

Conductor

Brigitte Lesne

About

With this release, Zig-Zag Territoires begins collaboration with Brigitte Lesne and her ensemble Discantus. This group, which already has a discography of a dozen titles to its credit, is at the cutting edge of musicological research and performance practice in the vocal repertories of the Middle Ages.

“Universi populi” testifies to the richness of cultural exchanges in medieval Europe and presents for the first time the exceptional discoveries that Brigitte Lesne and her ensemble Discantus made in Prague: the luxuriant melodies, the rich ornamentation, the innovative style of polyphony, and the repertory of cantiones sacrae.

A substantial research project, undertaken with the musicologist Marie-Noël Colette at the initiative of the Institut Français de Prague and the Sablé Festival, has brought to light a number of antiphoners, processionals and tropers from St George’s basilica in Prague which date from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.

Astonishingly, Bohemia was among the earliest territories to embrace the new chants (nova cantica) that had emerged in Aquitaine in the twelfth century, and later the art of the motet, thanks to the presence of Guillaume de Machaut in Prague in the fourteenth century.

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