These two volumes present an important and distinctive collection of Carolingian poetry; composed for the liturgy in the last quarter of the ninth century by Notker Balbulus ("the stammerer"); monk of St Gall (d. 912). Notker was not the first liturgical composer inspired by the Carolingian renaissance of learning to make new texts for elaborate Alleluia melodies; but he was certainly the first to raise the sequence genre to a consistently refined linguistic and theological level; and to provide a repertory for the annual cycle of holy feasts. His collection circulated widely in Germanic areas in the tenth and eleventh centuries; while some of his compositions - such as Sancti spiritus - became staples throughout Europe. Notker's Liber ymnorum has never before been edited with the melodies after which his sequences were fashioned and to which they were sung. Provided here is a full edition of Notker's dedicatory preface; followed by 49 sequences. Each sequence is presented with two musical notations ("Carolingian" in neumes; and pitched on staves); followed by translations and an extensive commentary. A full introduction provides a context for the work.
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