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Examine the Score. Listen to the Mass while following an Annotated Score The Annotated Scores were created by Sarah Riskind in Flash.

Examine the Score

This site will continue to grow, so enjoy the animated scores now available and come back soon to examine more animated scores of the St. Donatian Mass. Opening the Geese Book.

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The Copenhagen Chansonnier. Salve radix (Anonymous) A double-canon 4 ex 2 at the upper fourth, distinguished in its unique source by its notational form: each of the two notated voices is written on a circular staff surrounding a painted red rose.

Salve radix (Anonymous)

As the opening composition of LonBLR 11 E.xi (preceded only by a full-page illustration which incorporates part of this work's text, as well as the full text of the following piece, Sampson's Psallite felices), Salve radix clearly serves in a dedicatory capacity of some sort. Its enigmatic text can be explained mainly by reference to the opening illustration, as a paean to the multi-flowered plant which represents the Tudor dynasty (see the Introduction to A Choirbook for Henry VIII and his Sisters).[1] On a larger scale, however, the borrowings from En lombre dung buysonnet give way to a formal structure unique to the present composition.

Caxton's Chaucer - view the original Canterbury Tales. Digital Bayeux Tapestry.